Kim Kardashian Slams the Wall Street Journal for Ad Denying Armenian Genocide

The reality star — who also commands quite the empire with her Keeping Up With the Kardashians family — earned a whopping $51 million between July 2015 and July 2016, according to Forbes. So, yeah, she can more than afford to slam someone or something in, say, a full-page ad in the New York Times, and that’s just what she did on Saturday.

Although Kardashian’s slams as of late have been about Taylor Swift, this time she lashed out at The Wall Street Journal. Kardashian, 35, took issue with a full-page ad that the Journal accepted for publication in April denying the Armenian genocide. Beginning in 1915, an estimated 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire were killed or deported by the Turkish government — something Turkish officials continue to deny.

In her ad, Kardashian — who is of Armenian descent — wrote several paragraphs under the title “Genocide Denial Cannot Be Allowed.” Kardashian wrote on her blog essentially the same words about the WSJ and the controversial ad when it was released, but the audience for the New York Times is a little different.

“Money talks, and right now it’s talking crap,” she began. “My family and I are no strangers to BS in the press. We’ve learned to brush it off. Lies make good headlines, good headlines make great covers, great covers sell magazines. But when I heard about this full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal denying the Armenian genocide, I couldn’t just brush it off.”

Kardashian writes that the organization behind the ad believes “not as many people died as historians say, and that the Armenians were to blame.”

“For the Wall Street Journal to publish something like this is reckless, upsetting, and dangerous,” she continued. “It’s one thing when a crappy tabloid profits from a made-up scandal, but for a trusted publication like the WSJ to profit from genocide — it’s shameful and unacceptable.”

The Kimoji creator also bashed the newspaper for defending its choice to print the ad, because it publishes what it called “provocative” viewpoints.

“If this had been an ad denying the Holocaust, or pushing some 9/11 conspiracy theory, would it have made it to print?” Kardashian asked.

She closed by stating: “We have to be responsible for the message that we pass on to our children. We have to honor the truth in our history so that we protect their future. We have to do better than this.”