Going back to the days of when AV Club had higher standards and even basic effort, I’m gonna invoke the old community grades.

Respectfully, this article is both a kind of a bad take and not really even objectively presenting information because the following is noted without any acknowledgement that the pageant was also opened to non-whites decades previous:

Tatiana, I think you should resign from the AV Club for writing this awful, misleading article. It was wildly irresponsible and you no longer can be trusted when delivering news. 

Definitely one of the most toxically misleading headlines I’ve read all year.

I normally just poke fun at the empty and excessive wokeness of the modern AV Club, but this time I’ll just say: fuck you AV Club, and fuck you Tatiana for writing this drivel.

“A racist past”? I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt that you were not the one that came up with that dumbass headline because after reading the article, that is a stretch. The article almost reads like parody.

So she got this thing in 1999, which was 20 years after the organization admitted its first black members.

This is absurd. She was 19, it was a pageant, and it’s hardly as if the organization was going around burning crosses and being exclusionary in 1999. People need to be rational, and grow up, and understand what matters and what doesn’t. There needs to be a level of critical thinking for stories like this, and that…

Tatiana Tenreyro, you should be ashamed of joining the mob with your pitchfork of judgement and stupidity. Way to go, you’ve attempted to ruin someone’s entire life just so you could have an article to write. You and all of the other “journalists” (AKA poor writers with low IQs) should find something productive to do…

“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.”

Tatiana, I see you are becoming the pageant Queen of hot take shitty blog posts.  

I think this is it. I’ve been reading for well over a decade. But I can’t do this anymore. “Ellie Kemper has a racist past” is not just an overstatement, it’s completely unsupported by anything we know. I can’t believe I’m going to trot out the whole ‘ethics in journalism’ shtick, but jesus tapdancing christ this…

Just an absolute goddamned embarrassment of an article. Fucking pathetic. I know some of you reeeeeeally want a fresh race war today, but Ellie needs an apology here.

For the first time in history, I think people may be overstating something they learned on Twitter. Participating in a ceremony that has distant “roots in white supremacy” is not the same thing as endorsing it. I kind of hope she never comments on this, since a) there’s not a lot of there there, and b) it would make…

So this thing had a racist past before 1990, then wasn’t *as* racist, and cleaned up and hid the racist stuff under the rug when she was 10 years old. Then 9 years later at 19 she gets signed up for the thing likely not knowing the past. Then, years later, acknowledges it was bad optics and apologizes for any support…

Fixed that title for you.

Whoo boy, this is a fiery, blazing hot take if I’ve ever seen one.

BF SHIT.

People aren’t upset over this, you and the author of the Root article are upset about this because you think you’re making a point and want to get clicks on your lazy journalism.

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