On Monday morning, conservative activist and prominent Trump supporter Kathy Zhu spoke with CNN "New Day" host Alisyn Camerota...
“You shouldn’t just take tweets out of context. I think it’s super important to see the full context of the tweet, and the full conversation,” Zhu, a Chinese immigrant who moved to the United States at age five, said in defending her posts to Camerota. “Everything I posted was statistics and my opinions, and I think that, you know, we should be empowering women's voices and not just stripping them of their title only because of their opinions.”
One of the tweets from Zhu highlighted by Miss World America was about black-on-black murder. “Did you know the majority of black deaths are caused by other blacks? Fix problems within your own community first before blaming others,” the post in question reads.
Camerota read the tweet on-air and suggested the tweet had a “ring of racism” to it because Zhu did not highlight white-on-white murder or statistics concerning police brutality.
"Do you see how that could be seen as offensive?" the CNN host asked. "Why would you focus on blacks causing black deaths when the majority of white deaths are caused by white people? This is why people think that this has a ring of racism to it. You didn’t mention the white statistic.”
“Again, this was in response to another person’s tweet talking about how cops kill black people,” said Zhu. Earlier in the interview, the activist said she was responding to a Twitter user claiming “all cops are bad people” and that they “kill innocent black people.”
“This is taken fully out of context,” Zhu repeated. “And if you think statistics and facts are racist, then I don’t know what to tell you.”
“It’s just which ones you highlight, since, you know, you could have said the thing about white people,” countered Camerota, before moving on to a post Zhu made regarding “hijab awareness day” on her former college campus.
"There's a 'try a hijab on' booth at my college campus. So you’re telling me that it's now just a fashion accessory and not a religious thing? Or are you just trying to get women used to being oppressed under Islam?" wrote Zhu in a post which has since been deleted, according to The Washington Examiner.
Zhu refuted the idea that the post was offensive. "I think that it's really rude, to Muslims too, to wear their sacred garment on someone who isn't a Muslim themselves. I wouldn't want to put a Catholic rosary on someone if they aren't Catholic," she told Camerota.
“But that’s not what you said,” the CNN host said. “You said it wasn’t that you felt badly for them, that you weren’t Muslim, it’s that you said, ‘are you just trying to get women used to be oppressed under Islam?’”
Zhu noted that women in some Muslim countries can be stoned for not properly wearing a hijab and suggested we look at the oppression of Muslim women outside of the Western world.
"There are so many women in Muslim countries right now who are being stoned to death because they don’t want to wear a hijab due to their husband's requirement to do so," she said. "I think we should be focusing on that.”
Reacting to her appearance on CNN, Zhu wrote in a tweet:
CNN: why didn’t u talk about white on white crimeMe: bcus it was in response to a person calling all cops horrible peopleCNN: ok but why didn’t u talk about white on white crimeMe: as I said, it was a response to another tweetCNN: ok but y didn’t u talk about white crime
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Disappointed the host wasn't wearing a dead chicken around her neck. Fitting for CNN and very racist against the Voodoo/Hoodoo cultures that she wasn't.
ReplyDeleteI would like to take that rotten white hating communist blonde witch strip her naked and put her in a mud hut village in zimbabwe
ReplyDeleteFree Speech ..... it is not SAFE Speech or PABLUM Speech .....
ReplyDeleteHave they been telling Muslims &Jews to "try on" CROSSES? I did not think so.
free speech now is what the jews allow you to say
ReplyDeleteThere are times I wounder how f.... ignorant is it possibly to be, all thoe I find this Girls rant about an garment simply amazingly stupid, I stil cant undestand why this is becomed an national issue, its an f.... head scarf, hell bitches I can if I bothered show you images of Norwegain eh...... christian fundamentalists whom is forcing women and girls to wear head scarfs, that, is exactly the same as an Hijab, and Hijab isnt Burka witch is so far out its even banned in most Islamic countrys incl Iran.
ReplyDeleteThis is just another MSM and morons created dead ends street case, an storm in an bucket, but shows the level of ignorance.
Hijab, originaly, is an desert clothing, to protect your head and neck from the sun, anyone whom have been in this regions do infact cover their bodys with clouthing, we use hats, etc, to do the same, take the brunt of the sun, jesus f.... christ this is idiotic, sorry, but I find this to be really, really idiotic.
Period.
Get an f.... grip.
It is shitheads like you and people drooling in the coment fields that is making this stupidty to an bloody issue, and have managed to politicide this to levels I find downright insulting to any intellegence what so ever, and somehow, you dont bother to go to what makes this happens, the f.... MSM and your and Trumps friends, the Whabi scumbags aka Saudi-barbarians.
But again, to attack this woman for refusing is way to much, an over reaction that is just plain silly.
Grow up for f... sake.
peace