When the context is the indictment of Daniel Penny for the murder of a black panhandler who was “harassing people in subways” by a suit-wearing black district attorney who also doesn’t fit the description of “woke activist” particularly well, it feels like interpreting a not-particularly-ambiguous sentence in a maximally disingenuous way to suggest that the race the people referenced had in common was a non factor and Hanania clearly meant the “woke activism” they didn’t. That’s even before considering the compatibility of the “animals” label with Hanania’s longstanding overt white supremacist beliefs.
When the context is the indictment of Daniel Penny for the murder of a black panhandler who was “harassing people in subways” by a suit-wearing black district attorney who also doesn’t fit the description of “woke activist” particularly well, it feels like interpreting a not-particularly-ambiguous sentence in a maximally disingenuous way to suggest that the race the people referenced had in common was a non factor and Hanania clearly meant the “woke activism” they didn’t. That’s even before considering the compatibility of the “animals” label with Hanania’s longstanding overt white supremacist beliefs.