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Twitter Users Mock Phyllis Schlafly, Celebrate Her Death
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Phyllis Schlafly died Monday at the age of 92, and Twitter users couldn’t even wait for her body to grow cold before celebrating her death in enthusiastic fashion.
Author and journalist Mark Harris summed up Schlafly’s life by saying she made the world worse off, and then jetted off to the movies.
https://twitter.com/MarkHarrisNYC/status/772928513875795968
Entertainment Weekly writer Anthony Breznican took a similar tack, saying Schlafly had “squandered” her entire life.
https://twitter.com/Breznican/status/772943269521072128
Upworthy’s Parker Malloy had a similar perspective on the matter.
https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/772935501280051200
Jeb Lund of Rolling Stone was one of the most celebratory, bluntly saying Schlafly was the spawn of Satan and had gone to Hell to spend eternity with her master.
https://twitter.com/Mobute/status/772938973769523200
Popehat blogger Ugarles even expressed the hope that Schlafly had been murdered.
the only thing i want to know is if there was a pillow on phyllis schlafly's face. please say yes. i need this.
— Listen to No Homework go to bsky (@Ugarles) September 6, 2016
Dan Canon, an attorney who helped litigate the Obergefell v. Hodges case which legalized gay marriage nationwide, lamented that Schlafly hadn’t died earlier.
https://twitter.com/dancanon/status/772943121101492224
The New Republic, meanwhile, memorialized Schlafly by linking to a 2008 article where they labeled her “an immeasurable force for bad.”
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 comedian Julie Klausner contrasted the presumably fortunate death of Schlafly with the unfortunate departure of Gene Wilder last week.
https://twitter.com/julieklausner/status/772938342602252292
Little Green Footballs editor-in-chief Charles Johnson claimed that he wouldn’t celebrate Schalfly’s death, but also called her a “nexus of evil” and was upset the media would likely produce obituaries without overtly vilifying her.
https://twitter.com/Green_Footballs/status/772947092696203264
While others were celebrating, at least one person, television producer Bob Schooley, realized an article just like this one was probably incoming.
https://twitter.com/Rschooley/status/772934442297937920
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