HuffPo’s White House correspondent says ‘American history can be complicated for recent arrivals’

The thread of tweets, which originally started out talking about Vice President Kamala's tweet Friday that spoke only of the "long weekend" and not of Memorial Day, devolved quickly into talk of 9/11 and the Capitol Hill riot on Jan. 6.

Kassam slammed Dáte for being a "truther" and for insinuating that Jan. 6 was worse than 9/11 in a tweet Dáte posted last week.

Dáte responded by saying that although 9/11 killed 3,000 Americans, "it did little to threaten the foundations of American democracy. Not even a little. Trump absolutely did that on Jan. 6 by trying to end American Democracy."

He also included a tweet from former President Donald Trump dating back to September 11, 2013, in his post, to which Kassam responded "Ok, truther."

Dáte came back and said that "American history can be complicated for recent arrivals," a comment that would get many conservatives canceled for posting.

He went on to say "maybe what Guy Fawkes tried to do to your country’s democracy is an analogy that might make sense to you," pointing to Kassam's British nationality. Kassam's parents were Tanzanian immigrants of Indian origin from Hillingdon, Greater London.

"Wait you think most people today would be anti-Guy Fawkes?" replied Kassam. Guy Fawkes was a participant in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 that looked to blow up Parliament, with Fawkes held up as a symbol of anarchism, and the white Guy Fawkes masks a common occurrence at anti-government protests.

"Looks like those public schools in *checks notes* Pune, India didn’t serve you well for a future in Western political commentary," Kassam continued.

"Oh, I make no representations about understanding you Brits. You all just recently voted to tank your own economy so as to be sovereign, or some such," Dáte replied. "Most Americans, however, do appear to agree that trying to overthrow democracy because you lost your re-election is wrong."