Nikole Hannah-Jones sets Twitter mob on Asian woman who complained about violence on NYC subways

Hyperwoke 1619 Project author Nikole Hannah-Jones turned a Twitter mob on an Asian woman who complained about violence in the New York subway — despite statistics proving transit crime is on the rise.

Hannah-Jones, who spearheaded The 1619 Project, a controversial New York Times initiative that sought to reframe American history by “putting the consequences of slavery at the center of the national narrative,” quoted Yiatin as saying Queens resident Chu on Twitter.

Chu wrote, “Paid $2.75 to sit on a subway with a loud and aggressive man who threatened to hit his female partner. Switched cars at the next stop to sit in a public toilet/urine smell, overcrowded car for the rest of my ride. This is @KathyHochul and @NYCMayor’s NYC.’

Hannah-Jones derisively responded in a quote tweet, writing, “Yes, yes. This was absolutely unheard of in subways until two years ago.”

A mob of Hannah-Jones’ 700,000 followers then descended on Chu, accusing the New York Times journalist of knowingly circling the wagons.

According to New York City statistics, transit crime is up 38 percent in 2022 from the same point in 2021, while citywide crime is up 29 percent from last year.

There were 1,462 crimes between early 2021 and mid-November, but this year there are 2,019 so far, a dramatic increase.

Jones, who spearheaded The 1619 Project, a New York Times initiative that aimed to reframe American history by “putting the consequences of slavery at the center of the national narrative,” quoted Yiatin Chu, resident from Queens, on Twitter (pictured)

Chu replied, “I’ve been taking the subway since the 1980s. It’s not new, but it’s widespread and not getting better. Our elected officials said they would address it, but we have not seen any improvements. Why should we accept these terms for our commute?’

A very public endorsement of Republican Lee Zeldin in the recent gubernatorial election, Chu told the New York Post that Hannah-Jones wanted to “send her followers after me” with her “massive platform.”

She added, “She makes these snarky comments and she invites them all to continue. They were unfriendly on purpose.’

Not everyone was on the offensive, as one tweeter defended Chu, saying, “Nikole grew up in Iowa. Yiatin grew up in Queens. Some of us have decades of NYC to draw from.”

Hannah-Jones also recently made waves when she appeared on MSNBC to take down Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin.

She criticized the governor’s executive order to ban Critical Race Theory from schools in Virginia – though she also maintained that the subject was not actually taught at all.

Hannah-Jones also recently made waves when she appeared on MSNBC to take down Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin

Hannah-Jones criticized Virginia Governor Glenn Younkin (pictured) for his executive order to ban Critical Race Theory in Virginia schools

Hannah-Jones said, “We know that Glenn Youngkin ran his campaign on this idea of ​​teaching a more sanitized history that would protect the feelings of white children. We know that history and how it is taught in the United States has always been contentious.’

The author accused Youngkin of “selectively putting certain things into curricula that give us a certain idea of ​​what America is.”

She argued that while she believes CRT is not taught in schools, Democrats should be pushing for more of it, saying, “I think the problem with how progressives tried to fight this campaign was getting away from it.” run. It would actually have been a good thing if we had a sophisticated analysis of structural inequality in America in our classrooms.”