“Imagine if she’d joined the Army? It was segregated until 1948.”

Change the false, slanderous headline. Ellie Kemper does not have a “racist past." She went to a ball when she was 19 years old. Be better.

Oh fuck off with this. Even the comments on The Root were calling out how ridiculous this accusation is.

When I saw this trending on Twitter, I thought, “This is EXACTLY the type of story the current AV Club will write about without doing any work to put it into context.” So, yeah.

Kemper was 19 years old when she was selected to be the Queen Of Love And Beauty. At that age, teenagers are mature enough to know what they’re being part of.

“Cancel Culture” doesn’t really exist, bit if it did, it would be about people being taken to task and having their careers ruined for things they did 22 years ago, when they were dumb teenagers, probably under pressure from their families and peers, as part of an event with a racist past, that had started to show at…

You're here for the kinja. 

You know, AVC, you can’t regularly call Twitter a shitty hell website and then give in to its worst tendencies constantly.

When *some* people say “Cancel culture is a thing”, this is what they mean. Not the “it’s just consequence for your actions” kind of meaning.

I would’ve put money on that. Good thing I didn't  

Was really hoping AVC wouldn’t report on this nonsense. But of course they did.

You guys have printed a fair amount of extraordinarily weak outrage-seeking shit over the past couple years, but this might take the cake. I rate this clickbait seven “UGH”s out of a possible five.

Barsanti didn't write this?

The Atlantic reported in 2014 that the Veiled Prophet Organization barred Black and Jewish people from joining.

I’m surprised AV Club went with this take when even the comments section of The Root went “Eh, this is stretching it.”

I’m not sure that holding a 41 year old responsible for not knowing a beauty pageant was racist/classist when she was 19 (and really, from what I’ve read they were working against all poors, not just PoC) is really worth the hysteria.

1999 was a looong time ago and everybody’s understanding of racial/social justice has…

Yeah, isn’t this kinda like saying Kermit the Frog is a racist because there were confederate flags at some random Southern state fair in “The Muppet Movie”?

Right? This read like she was almost forced to write it. 

This is some low energy shit right here. 

Hol up, you’re telling me that St. Louis did something Klan related? THE St. Louis? The one in Missouri? Oh wow, who could have ever imagined that aside from literally every person on the planet or at least these United States? I had to look up who she was (I’ve tried with the Office but it’s just not funny; never…