When a celebrity reaches for statistics.
They protested at airports.
New York taxi drivers held their own protest .
Donald Trump’s executive order to ban immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries affected many.
On Twitter, you’d expect the usual railing.
However, late on Saturday night, an unusual celebrity entered the fray. Kim Kardashian, rarely seen on Twitter of late, first retweeted comedian Karl Penn’s attempt to turn a hateful Twitter comment into fundraising for Syrian refugees.
But then she offered one word of her own. That word was «Statistics. »
Beneath that word was a table that showed the various means by which Americans are killed annually. Number of Americans killed by Islamic jihadist immigrants: 2. Number of Americans killed by far right-wing terrorists: 5.
