Award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates came under intense fire from social media users on Sunday after tweeting that she has only heard “puritanical & punitive” things about the Islamic State and wonders whether there is anything “celebratory & joyous” about the terrorist group.
The National Book Award-winning author followed up that tweet with several more in the same vein:
Oates was roundly mocked for the comments on Twitter:
Even left-wing Salon couldn’t protect its own, calling Oates’ tweet “beautifully bonkers.”
Oates isn’t a stranger to Twitter dust-ups. In June, the author expressed her outrage at big-game hunting by retweeting a photo of a man posing next to a large dead animal, writing: “So barbaric that this should still be allowed… No conservation laws in effect wherever this is?”
The man in the photo was director Steven Spielberg posing in front of a “dead” triceratops on the set of Jurassic Park.