{"id":1396384,"date":"2022-03-23T13:14:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T17:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1396384"},"modified":"2022-03-23T13:14:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T17:14:40","slug":"yup-now-even-tipping-is-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yup-now-even-tipping-is-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Yup, Now Even Tipping Is Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyup-now-even-tipping-is-racist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1396384&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/tip.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Nikole Hannah-Jones, a New York Times reporter and creator of the 1619 Project, riled up social media on Monday when she tweeted that \u201ctipping is a legacy of slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTipping is a legacy of slavery and if it\u2019s not optional then it shouldn\u2019t be a tip but simply included in the bill,\u201d Hannah-Jones wrote. \u201cHave you ever stopped to think why we tip, like why tipping is a practice in the U.S. and almost nowhere else?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hannah-Jones, 45, created the 1619 Project which intends to \u201creframe\u201d American history by \u201cplacing the consequences of slavery at the center of the national narrative,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/08\/14\/magazine\/1619-america-slavery.html\">wrote<\/a> in the Times.<\/p>\n<p>Her tweet drew mockery from historian Phil Magness, a longtime gadfly to Hannah-Jones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWait, what?\u201d Magness, author of a rival project called \u201cThe 1619 Project: A Critique,\u201d wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wait, what? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ylpH1UigLe\">pic.twitter.com\/ylpH1UigLe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhilWMagness\/status\/1506111677292498947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Magness noted that tipping is not isolated to just the U.S., posting a Good Housekeeping guide for how to tip in other countries. Magness also cited a scene from William Shakespeare\u2019s play \u201cTwelfth Night\u201d that references tipping.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And yes, there&#8217;s even a scene in Shakespeare&#8217;s Twelfth Night that depicts tipping.<\/p>\n<p>Note: &#8220;gratillity&#8221; is an obsolete old English word for gratuity. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iix1vNPxm8\">pic.twitter.com\/iix1vNPxm8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhilWMagness\/status\/1506135369548550147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That drew a response from Hannah-Jones. \u201cI know your obsession with my Twitter account is unrelenting because it\u2019s the only time anyone pays attention to your tweets, but come on,\u201d she tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t discredit me, you\u2019re not converting anyone or revealing anything by going behind my block to stalk my Twitter for tweets you can post to invite scorn,\u201d Hannah-Jones added. \u201cThis is about you hoping to bring attention you otherwise don\u2019t get and fill some bitter hole you have. Sad. So sad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hannah-Jones also said she tips, despite her view that it\u2019s racist.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah-Jones was quick to add that she doesn\u2019t stiff the help despite her dubious claims about the practice\u2019s origin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre y\u2019all reading what I am writing or nah?\u201d she wrote after others on social media piled on. \u201cI said I tip. I tip well. I tip almost always. But I object to the idea that I am obligated to tip no matter how I am treated. Nope. And you can\u2019t get more offended at me than employers that pay less-than-minimum wage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Hannah-Jones said she sometimes is \u201cdisrespected at restaurants.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve said what I have to say about this,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI have been utterly disrespected at restaurants. Ignored. Rudeness. Nope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hannah-Jones penned a New York Times magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/08\/14\/magazine\/1619-america-slavery.html\">article<\/a> titled \u201cThe 1619 Project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublished in August 2019, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in the English colony of Virginia, the work has been criticized by some academics for its claims \u2013 and angered many others who saw it as unpatriotic,\u201d the Daily Mail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10640883\/1619-Projects-Nikole-Hannah-Jones-claims-tipping-tied-slavery-Twitter-row-historian.html\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent, and ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2015. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikole Hannah-Jones, a New York Times reporter and creator of the 1619 Project, riled up social media on Monday when she tweeted that \u201ctipping is a legacy of slavery.\u201d\u201cTipping is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}