Okay, what does that have to do with anything?
It is speculation. That might be warranted if people were defending the tweets in the article, but no one is doing that. Everyone pretty much immediately realized that they were made by racist idiots. In fact, scroll down to the comments section of the article and you'll immediately see people disagreeing with them.
So basically, the people in the thread aren't defending the tweets. The people who commented on the article aren't defending the tweets. I have yet to see anyone who thinks it was a good idea to say those things, so.... you made up a narrative based on some stupid shit said by a dozen random morons with Twitter access and then tried to call that an, "accurate social statement."