Housewives are racist. That’s the takeaway from the response to a recent BBC interview with housewife Alena Kate Pettitt. She runs a blog and YouTube channel, where she extols the joys of her traditional lifestyle. And rather than chuckling at this quaint throwback to “Leave it to Beaver,” many viewers took offense and vented their outrage on social media.
The problem seems to be Pettitt’s use of the hashtag #tradwife, which is—apparently—also used by white supremacists. Pettitt denies any such association, but that did not stop a Twitter mob from calling for her head. The BBC even went as far as to juxtapose Pettitt’s interview with photos of Hitler and German housewives giving the Nazi salute. But that wasn’t enough for the Twitter intelligentsia, who insisted they should never have given her a platform in the first place.
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