Comedian Sarah Silverman behaved exactly like anyone familiar with comedian Sarah Silverman would expect her to on Christmas day, launching the following tweet into a world full of already/perpetually aggrieved Christians:
MERRY CHRISTMAS! Jesus was gender fluid!
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) December 25, 2015
The response was, as anyone who’s paid attention to politics in the past decade would imagine, not entirely positive:
@SarahKSilverman No wonder Jimmy dumped u, then married someone else. U have become a bitter unfunny hack like @Rosie @JoyVBehar @billmaher
— L1B3R7Y1776 (@L1B3R7Y1776) December 27, 2015
Which isn’t to say that all Christian charity has absented itself from the world:
And it’s not like she didn’t score some supporters:
@SarahKSilverman the first "Caitlyn"?
— Jon Grubmeyer (@pizzdoff) December 25, 2015
@SarahKSilverman Wow, people losing their minds over a character from an ancient book of fairy tales. I thought Star Trek fans were intense.
— PaTrickRTweet🐻🌈 (@PatrickRomSim) December 26, 2015
But for the most part, it has, having been replaced by thinly veiled anti-Semitism and ill-conceived comparisons to Islamic extremism:
Silverman responded as only she can:
And lo, Santa's pube style pic.twitter.com/QR0gc3GzJA
— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) December 25, 2015
