Twitter Hate Trolls Attack Calif. for Equal Rights Foundation Exec. Dir. Over Reparations
Twitter says vile, racist Tweets not harassment
By Katy Grimes, June 17, 2022 8:39 am
It’s open season on those right-of-center, conservatives, and moderate Democrats, and the media is mostly silent about it. The assignation attempt of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh went unreported in major media outlets. The homemade explosive device found outside the home of San Jose City Councilwoman Dev Davis also received little to no coverage, except for the Globe’s.
Dr. Wenyuan Wu, Executive Director of Californians for Equal Rights Foundation and the historic No on Proposition 16 Campaign, has become fodder for an anonymous group of haters on Twitter for daring to question the California Reparations Task Force. Dr. Wu notes that the the Reparations Task Force is a nine-member team of Democratic politicians, activists, and scholars.
In a recent article Dr. Wu wrote for for Minding the Campus titled “Reparations or Ransom?” she was critical of the California Reparations Task Force’s recent 500 page report, and the “sweeping policy recommendations such as zero-interest home loans, free college tuition, free healthcare, tree-planting for environmental equity, voting rights for the incarcerated, and monetary compensation at both the state and federal levels.”
She did an interview with NBC San Diego, and the Twitter trolls started attacking.
The Twitter trolls starting trolling all of her Twitter posts. She said within a day, “the attacks started bleeding over to Facebook.”
The Twitter trolls don’t use their real names and say vile, racist things:
Wu has been viciously targeted by hate groups on Twitter:
In her article, Dr. Wu challenges the Task Force’s findings:
The jaw-dropping findings from this “first-in-the-nation effort by a state government to study slavery, its effects throughout American history, and the compounding harms” rest upon the sole premise that systemic racism is a permanent feature of America. Slavery and its legacy institutions, including white supremacy, housing segregation, employment discrimination, and a lack of education funding, are the chief culprit behind contemporary racial disparities in wealth, health, and learning. The report’s grim outlook on American society, a nihilist stance that discounts any socioeconomic progress in advancing racial equality, makes a mockery of our multi-racial democracy.
Wenyuan Wu said some of the Twitter trolls called for a boycott of Asian-owned businesses:
Dr. Wu continued her challenge of the California Reparations Task Force report:
Conveniently, the report does not make a distinction between descendants of African slaves and black Americans, a diverse group encompassing 46.8 million people with ancestral roots across the globe, 10% of whom are foreign-born. In a similarly cartoonish fashion, the extensive endeavor uses whites as the baseline for crude, dichotomous comparisons to justify alleged institutionalized harms, although many observed disparities exist between non-white groups as well.
Dr. Wu points out actual historical inaccuracies:
The authors argue that during American slavery and even after the Civil War, white supremacy created insurmountable obstacles for black children to obtain quality education, the effects of which are still felt today. This dark reality is said to be true even in California, where white-led state legislatures allegedly passed a series of laws to racially segregate public schools and severely underfund black schools, although the state joined the Union in 1850 as a free state and the state constitution at the time contained an anti-enslavement clause.
Dr. Wu says “they are stoking hate between minority groups.” The report authors note:
“A California law passed in 1855 withheld state funds from schools that taught Black and Chinese children. So although California taxed African Americans to pay for the state’s public schools, a Black Californian’s taxes only paid for the education of white children, and they had no right to education for their own children.”
Dr. Wu responded:
The addition of Chinese students to the equation is one of the few exceptions to the black-vs-white contrast throughout the report. Ironically, if pre-Civil War racist laws still have long-lasting effects in the present day, how can one explain the fact that the biggest academic achievement gap today by every measurable metric is not the one between white and black students, but that between Asian and black students?
She said much of this can be traced back to 2020 and the No on Proposition 16 campaign, which sought to remove the following from California Constitution:” The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in the operation of public jobs, schools, and contracting.”
Dr. Wu said she was similarly attacked during the No on Prop. 16 campaign. “They want to intimidate me,” Dr. Wu said.
Voters soundly defeated Prop. 16, and the merit-based system remains in place, even if schools and government don’t actually practice it.
As for Dr. Wu reporting to Twitter the harassment she received with these hateful and racist Tweets, she said Twitter claimed there was no harassment.
“They are calling for my employer to fire me,” Dr. Wu said. “They are cowards. This is not about exercising 1st Amendment rights – this is trolling others who disagree with them, and that’s attacking my 1st Amendment rights.”
You can watch Dr. Wu’s NBC San Diego interview here:
Dr. Wu writes for Minding the Campus of the National Association of Scholars and sits on the board of Parents Defending Education Action and is a contributor to California Globe. You can read “Reparations or Ransom?” at Minding the Campus.
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Democrats do NOT want “equality” they want conformity and obedience.
They will push whatever gets them to that goal, thus the ends justify the means
Majority Latino population in California paying blacks in a state that did not have slavery? If anyone should get reparations in California, it’s the Chinese.
Exactly , how about native Indians? Many was killed? what ever the history is gone. We should know what is wrong and right from history . that is the way of civilization. If anyone hate US history and hate US. Then They have choice go back to their original county. We should look forward , The society should reward hard working people not lazy. We should Do things right and common sense. We love The land and freedom to do things right.
I think CA Native American tribes wanting reparations should look to Spain.
I’m glad Dr. Wu was able to state her case again here at The Globe so that an even wider audience is able to see just how FEEBLE the “slavery reparations” argument is. Yes, of course Twitter should be removing these ugly and racist tweets, but this is unlikely to happen when Twitter could very well be manufacturing these tweets themselves! And if, on the off-chance they are not, the current Twitter culture cheers them and, as Katy Grimes noted, what we see instead is now open season on sensible people, right-of-center, moderate Democrats, and others who still have their wits about them.
As a commenter suggested, this is obviously not about “reparations” anyway and reasonable people know it. Economic redistributionist radicals, leftists, and vote-pandering politicians who conveniently call themselves Democrats are behind this and their number is relatively small. Also their arguments are lame, which is why they have to scream louder and disguise themselves as a mob on Twitter in hopes of intimidating and shutting up anyone who might dare to put together a cogent argument against desperate, pandering, and fake “slavery reparations.”
The railway Chinese ? Native Indians ? Spanish ? Africans They all suffering from that history. It is gone decades. We should look forward. If we speaks history The native Indians own all the American land. We should return to them. Many were killed. How We reimburse their lives.?
The native Indians own all the American land. Many were killed. According the history we should all leave and return their land . How we reparation the native Indians and return all the land to them ?
As far has reparations go the United States has given TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS (that is TRILLIONS with a “T”) to the Black community since 1965. I think that is more than enough “reparations”.
Agree 100%.
There have been many who’ve used that money (and the opportunities) to their advantage, but more have squandered it and it’s made no positive difference.
There are probably many Caucasian men in California who have been discriminated against on the basis of their race and gender because of affirmative action preference programs? No doubt they deserve reparations too?
Reparations is another shakedown by hoodlums pretending to be victims.
Lazy people these victims!
Sac now protects the perimeter of Planned Parenthood but do nothing for the pregnancy centers which have been under physical attack for 2 weeks.
C’mon Darrell, be fair,
The woman has a right to her (obviously well researched) opinion on an issue that affects taxpayers. Hateful radical leftists do not have the right to threaten and harass. Everyone blamed the anonymity of internet/cyber bullying, people say things online they’d never say face-to-face. I’ve seen plenty of videos of people saying “it” face-to-face and physically carrying out those threats.
I am sickened at the society we’ve become.
Education is the ticket to improving outcomes for all groups that were previously discriminated against in America’s history. That includes Europeans, Asians, religious groups, women, and more. Each group pulled itself up by the bootstraps to make a better living. And education preK-12 is FREE! We even subsidize or provide free housing, food, transportation, utilities and more. So stop the ask for more already!!!
California Reparations Task Force? What a stupid waste of your tax dollars! No one in CA EVER WAS a slave, so why do they deserve anything? Because lazy ass, good for nothing parasites want something for nothing! Dr Wu is right, its very divisive. Sponges “deserve” nothing! Anyone who expects “reparations” is a parasitic sponge and should be mocked and ridiculed mercilessly.