Ezra Klein’s Rubio Tweet Contains a Very Weird Autocorrect…

Autocorrect can screw up your meaning a lot, but this one from Ezra Klein just takes the cake:

Here's what Marco Rubio tostada on taxes, Medicare, marijuana, same sex marriage, and more: http://t.co/Sm3CwXZ45R

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) April 14, 2015

Everyone was understandably confused by how anything he tweeted could have possibly autocorrected to “tostada” and/or in the mood for some mockery:

@ezraklein tostada?

— Chris Hansen (@tankcat) April 14, 2015

@ezraklein Tostada? Is that dog whistle racism? pic.twitter.com/iU5Znco9Hw

— nilgirian (@nilgirian) April 14, 2015

@ezraklein best spellcheck ever

— Frank Eaton (@bullydoc) April 14, 2015

@ezraklein So is autocorrect racist, or is it just you?

— Ally (@newscat44) April 14, 2015

I think Ezra Klein's autocorrect is racist #tostada pic.twitter.com/JR90HICNUV

— Roshan Patel (@roshanpatel_) April 14, 2015

But is the tostada from Chipotle?

— Timothy P Carney (@TPCarney) April 14, 2015

GOP race will be decided by the same thing that decides all national elections: Tostada

— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) April 14, 2015

To be fair @ezraklein stole that tostada from @NateSilver538

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 14, 2015

(That last one’s a reference to this.)

Klein did not take down the tweet, just explained in a subsequent one what he meant to say:

Sigh. Previous tweet should have read "stands," not, as autocorrect decided, "tostada."

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) April 14, 2015

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