Nikole Hannah-Jones, the New York Times writer behind the controversial 1619 Project, has moved on from history to geography with the puzzling pronouncement that Europe is not a continent, and it is apparently racist to believe otherwise.

Jones, who tweets under the handle “Ida Bae Wells,” was met with a torrent of Twitter mockery Sunday after making the claim while discussing the war in Ukraine. As with her prize-winning, but fact-challenged, historical position that the United States began not with the Revolutionary War, but with the much earlier importation of slaves to North America, Jones was met by online bemusement.