“Woo woo, America! You are still a garbage country but we appreciate you allowing us do some of the things we want to do.”

I agree. How much fun can a party be when Swift is telling people to look good or it might affect their next years invite

She’s a simulacrum. Baudrillard had seen into the future and clearly had her in mind when he came up with his ‘hyper-reality’ concept.

Like ... Rihanna doesn’t map out every minute of her fun for her followers to consume. Because she’s too busy being the literal coolest.

“You’re responding on the post like Dunham forced Malia to be her intern.”

Ava DuVernay’s available. So is Gina Prince-Bythewood. So is Shonda Rhimes. So is Oprah. So is Debbie Allen.

You know, I’m mad too. I’m pretty demoralized by how much of the creative industries are dominated by people whose parents (or parents’ money) got them there. There’s so much artistic talent within people who you’ve never heard of —but it usually never manifests because they need to make a living.

There’s nothing impressive about a rich, sheltered white woman becoming even more rich by creating movies and TV shows that are somewhat based on her privileged life.

She deserves better than working with Lena Dunham.

Came down here to say this. That was some seriously overwrought prose about a white girl’s self-reflective trip to eat barbecue.

I can’t wait for a follow up about how marching in a Confederate Flag parade made this person feel just a tad bit guilty.

What the hell is a porch honky?

“I ate quickly and quietly, like a funeral had happened, and I needed to eat to remind myself of my body. The food was delicious, and I said so. When I got my receipt the discount was already on it, which made it feel like a secret, which made me angry “

Yeah. It’s godawful. It’s just remarkably bad, overwrought writing. I see from the byline that she’s a PhD student, which is alarming.

Right?

Does anyone really need to patronize a racist event to understand her whiteness?

I do not understand the point of this article.

I’m having a hard time identifying the part of this insufferably navelgazing thinkpiece that couldn’t have been written from OUTSIDE the restaurant, instead of adding more profit to this dipshit’s Hooray Casual Racism Day event. Why, exactly, did you need to throw more money on the pile?

Interview people going in and out of the restaurant. Do a highlight/review of other BBQ restaurants in the surrounding area. Instead, she went and paid and ate, and purchased a meal for someone who didn’t even go with her? I’m not really sure what the point is?

You. Gave. These. People. Money. So, you say you are tortured about the ignorance and discrimination of your past and the world that these people live in. To show us that you gave them money to reward them for this bullshit and wrote a piece that made YOU money. What is it that you expect? Do you really want a liberal…