I Said What I Said: Daniel Penny is a Racist, Classist, Ableist Killer
John McWhorter can deny it all he likes, and criticize me for saying it. But his rebuttal is embarrassing
Daniel Penny killed Jordan Neely in a New York City subway. That much is undisputed.
Likewise, it is understood that Neely had been acting erratically prior to being placed in a fatal six-minute chokehold by Penny, waving his arms about in a way that Penny, and perhaps others, viewed as threatening.
And according to a jury empaneled in Penny’s trial for negligent homicide, that perception of threat was sufficient to make his actions, while perhaps tragic, ultimately legal. Penny was acquitted on all charges and free to transition into his new role as a right-wing folk hero.
Within days, JD Vance had invited Penny to attend the Army-Navy game with him and Donald Trump because Neely’s killing is but a trifle to the incoming administration and its fans, whose desire to put Black, homeless, and mentally ill people in their place, knows no bounds.
Even if that place is a graveyard.
They are literally gleeful over a racist, classist, ableist murderer.
