*Less than 24 hours after Trevor Noah was announced as the successor to Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show,” backlash has hit social media.
Past tweets sent out by the 31-year-old comedian are now being called into question as either anti-Semitic…
Behind every successful Rap Billionaire is a double as rich Jewish man. #BeatsByDreidel
— Trevor Noah (@Trevornoah) May 12, 2014
Almost bumped a Jewish kid crossing the road. He didn’t look b4 crossing but I still would hav felt so bad in my german car!
— Trevor Noah (@Trevornoah) September 18, 2009
…or misogynistic:
Originally when men proposed they went down on one knee so if the woman said no they were in the perfect uppercut position.
— Trevor Noah (@Trevornoah) December 20, 2012
“Oh yeah the weekend. People are gonna get drunk & think that I’m sexy!” – fat chicks everywhere.
— Trevor Noah (@Trevornoah) October 14, 2011
Noah’s defenders have pointed out that he is being judged on a handful of his nearly 9000 tweets, and that he has a history of engaging in debates on race, social justice and the power of words — and jokes — to work through painful experiences.
In the past he has spoken with humor about his difficulties growing up in apartheid-era South Africa as the son of a white father and a black mother, whom he has described as half-Jewish. He has joked that he was “born a crime.”
“In the streets my father couldn’t walk with us. He would walk on the other side of the road and wave at me like a creepy pedophile,” he was quoted as telling a London audience. “And my mom could walk with me but every time the police went by she would drop me. I felt like a bag of weed.”
Stewart, 52, said on Feb. 10 that he was leaving the popular series after 16 years at the mock-anchor desk. Noah’s starting date hasn’t been announced.
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