Barbara Ehrenreich slammed for racist Marie Kondo tweet
She tweeted that the Japanese ‘de-cluttering guru’ should ‘learn to speak English’
An online takedown of Marie Kondo by author-journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has been widely condemned as racist and xenophobic. Ehrenreich says it was a joke gone wrong.
Ehrenreich tweeted Monday that she saw Kondo’s popularity as a sign of America’s decline and wished that the Japanese “de-cluttering guru” would “learn to speak English.”
She later tweeted that she was “sorry” if she had offended anyone and called her previous comment a missed attempt at “subtle humour.”
Ehrenreich is a prominent liberal who writes often about the working class, notably in the best-selling ‘Nickel and Dimed’.
Prize-winning novelist Rebecca Makkai was among those calling Ehrenreich’s first tweet racist.
