‘If Slavery Were a Choice’ Hashtag Makes Lemonade Out of Kanye West’s Crazy Lemons

By James Sainte-Claire May 2, 2018

Kanye West is known for saying dumb s**t, and the s**t he’s saying has been getting dumber. He recently said that slavery was a choice, and he tweeted a fake quote, but he, in a surprisingly responsible move for West, deleted the tweet when he found out the quote was fake.

The famous abolitionist didn't actually say this: https://t.co/ZSg50FvUJC

— snopes.com (@snopes) May 2, 2018

Well, some ingenious Twitter users have been turning Kanye’s dumb tweets into the basis of amazing tweets, using the hashtag #IfSlaveryWereAChoice. And the first tweet below is from Ron Funches, who is the best.

#IfSlaveryWereAChoice 😂
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Massa – You gonna get out there and pick this cotton?

Me – pic.twitter.com/aOm1WP0xYX

— 1K ♥️ (@1ThowwFanPage) May 2, 2018

Me getting a call back from my planation interview #IfSlaveryWereAChoice pic.twitter.com/fI9x25LSsP

— KD🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@Pretti_Kitti1) May 2, 2018

#IfSlaveryWereAChoice
Me after being 4 hours late to the field: pic.twitter.com/9r1R18Lski

— ALD 🤴🏾 (@ajexplict) May 2, 2018

Future convo
Kanye West: "Slavery was a choice."

Donald Trump: "There were bad slaves on both sides, both sides."#IfSlaveryWereAChoice

— Craig Rozniecki (@CraigRozniecki) May 2, 2018

#IfSlaveryWereAChoice When massa's wife starts asking you about your light skinned baby. pic.twitter.com/0Hh8t59Gvc

— Erica Peterson (@EriPete21) May 2, 2018

Of course, dunking on Kanye isn’t for everyone, as was quickly revealed by insane conspiracy theorist Lousie Mensch.

Oh, honey… leave the comedy to the professionals. And the amateurs. And the people who aren’t “reporting” Steve Bannon was secretly executed for treason.

Good point… guy cosplaying as a Confederate general on Twitter. I’d just like to mention how clearly not racist you obviously are.

I’m pretty sure it proves you had some wifi interference. But hey, it’s all good, you compared turning your microwave on and having a tweet not go through to hundreds of years of race-based oppression. That’s not offensive at all.