New Twitter CEO Flamed for 11-Year-Old Tweet Quoting ‘Daily Show’ Joke About ‘White People and Racists’

“This is Twitter’s new CEO. Things are going to get way worse on here,” political commentator Clay Travis tweeted

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Twitter’s new CEO, Parag Agrawal, is already stirring up some pretty unhappy conservatives, who have pulled out a decade-old tweet quoting a joke made on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”

You can count the number of hours on one hand after it was announced that Jack Dorsey is stepping down as CEO and Agrawal was announced as his successor before the tweet surfaced and claims of racism were raised.

Back in 2010, Agrawal tweeted a snippet from a segment of “The Daily Show,” writing, “If they are not gonna make a distinction between muslims and extremists, then why should I distinguish between white people and racists.”

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