Leftists have reminded the world just how much they hated Phyllis Schlafly. As news of the conservative author and activist’s death spread, Twitter was deluged with tweets celebrating her death.
While most of the tweets were from ordinary members of the public, many others came from columnists and commentators. Here’s Jeb Lund, a columnist for The Guardian.
On the one hand it's a shame Phyllis Schlafly died, but on the other it's always heartwarming when Satan calls one of his own home.
— statehood 4 afghanistan (@Mobute) September 5, 2016
He was joined by Glenn Thrush, a senior writer for Politico.
RIP, Phyllis Schlafly. No woman ever worked so tirelessly, ventured so far on behalf of the belief that other women should do none of that.
— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) September 6, 2016
Here’s another delightful tweet from a TED Talks employee and contributor to the feminist blog “Femsplain.”
Phyllis Schlafly is 2016's apology for taking Prince and Bowie from us.
— ella dawson (@brosandprose) September 5, 2016
The New Republic took the time to remind their declining audience of their opinion on Schlafly.
Phyllis Schlafly has died. In 2008, we called her "an immeasurable force for bad." https://t.co/LLSfrbmjmB pic.twitter.com/ceLUcQxDaL
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) September 5, 2016
Author and journalist Mark Harris is currently at the movies, and wants the world to know.
Phyllis Schlafly's dead. She did a lot to make life worse for people I care about. I'm going to the movies now.
— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) September 5, 2016
Charles Johnson, a blogger, gets his wish.
With any luck I'll make it into Breitbart's customary round-up of THE AWFULEST THINGS LIBERAL MONSTERS SAID ABOUT PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 6, 2016
I won't celebrate Phyllis Schlafly's death but neither will I mourn. She was a nexus of evil right wing bigotry and hatred for many years.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 5, 2016
The worst thing about it is that we're almost certain to see some context-free media "tributes" to her now.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 5, 2016
Dan Ozzi, a writer for Vice, managed to fit lack of human decency and ignorance of cultural politics into a single tweet.
*googles "Phyllis Schlafly"*
ah yes I am glad this person I just learned of is dead
— Dan Ozzi (@danozzi) September 6, 2016
Tom McKay, a staff writer for Mic.com, also chimed in.
while Phyllis Schlafly's death is a tragedy, theorists believe we may be able to reclaim years' worth of valuable black coal from her heart
— ˡᵛˡ ⁴⁵ CHAOS POTUS (@thetomzone) September 6, 2016
So did Stacey Burns, a former New York Times reporter.
May her ideals follow her to the grave.
— Stacey Burns (@WentRogue) September 6, 2016
As did Katie Labusich, who hosts a radio show for Netroots and writes for The Establishment, an aptly-named feminist website.
We absolutely get to celebrate the passing of someone who worked for 70 years to reinforce oppressive, violent systems in this country.
— Katie Klabusich (@Katie_Speak) September 6, 2016
And who can forget Devin Faraci, a lefty “geek culture” commentator who once said critics of social justice warriors were worse than ISIS.
It’s unrelated, but here’s a video of him losing a boxing match.
https://twitter.com/devincf/status/772954962061959168
It wasn’t just pundits. Here’s Julie Klausner, co-star and creator of Difficult People, a series on Hulu.
https://twitter.com/julieklausner/status/772938342602252292
The account of “Mrs. Betty Bowers,” a satirical character created by Canadian comedian Deven Green to mock Christian conservatives, also joined in the hate-tweeting. [CORRECTION: The character was created by Andrew Bradley and is played by Deven Green].
Phyllis Schlafly didn’t believe in Climate Change. I bet she does now. pic.twitter.com/luhG3glI7D
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) September 6, 2016
The tweets mostly came from leftists, but there were some exceptions. Here’s #NeverTrump-er John Ziegler, a conservative radio host and Mediaite contributor.
At least Phyllis Schlafly selling out to Trump got her link in red on @DRUDGE_REPORT when she died. Wonder if it was worth eternal damnation
— John Ziegler (@Zigmanfreud) September 6, 2016
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