CNN commentator Van Jones has invoked the wrath of a thousand Karens, warning black people that they have more to fear from “white liberal Hillary Clinton supporters” who pretend to be allies than they do from the KKK.
Declaring that the black community is “fragile” and “tired” after years of lies about “progress” always being around the next corner even as innocent black men are killed in broad daylight, Jones took aim at who he believed was responsible. “It’s not the racist white person who’s in the Ku Klux Klan that we have to worry about,” he said on CNN on Friday. “It’s the white liberal Hillary Clinton supporter walking her dog in Central Park who would tell you right now… ‘I don’t see race!’”
CNN's Van Jones says that a "white liberal Hillary Clinton supporter" is a bigger threat to black people in America than a member of the Ku Klux Klan pic.twitter.com/jyqlyhjDge
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) May 29, 2020
Even the most liberal well-intentioned white person has a virus in his or her brain that can be activated at an instant.
Jones was referencing Amy Cooper, the infamous “Central Park Karen” who became a lightning rod for online outrage earlier this week after a video of her calling the police on a black birdwatcher who had tried to get her to leash her dog in a wildlife conservation area went viral. Affecting a panic-choked voice, Cooper told the 911 operator “an African-American man” was “threatening” her and her dog. After the clip exploded on social media, leading to Cooper being fired from her job, she took to CNN to apologize, insisting she was “not a racist” and “did not mean to harm that man in any way.” That, Jones said, was precisely what made people like her so dangerous.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, CNN’s (predominantly white, predominantly liberal) audience didn’t take kindly to being compared to white supremacists – or Central Park Karen. White liberals took to social media to complain…
Maybe because Van Jones is still trying to get everyone to ignore the fact that he supported and voted for Jill Stein, and therefore is partly responsible for this mess we're in right now. https://t.co/Jm8RNSzS5R
— Kara Calavera (@KaraCalavera) May 29, 2020
…proceeding to prove Jones’ point over and over with demands he apologize.
The Karen’s triggered by Van Jones comments are only proving his point.
— Lefty-Desiree McLeftyFace Slaps back w/ Milkshakes (@TinaDesireeBerg) May 29, 2020
Van Jones did not tell one lie and seeing all the “white liberals” attacking him proves his point.
— Ryan Knight