I know. I used to respect this site so much 8 years ago. Now it’s dangerous woke nonsense and defaming character for the sake of clicks. Shame shame.

AV Club turned into a tabloid rag so gradually, I hardly noticed.

Non-issue that she should have ignored.

“Yes, because that doesn’t happen at countless other events (e.g. proms, homecomings, parades, quinceañeras) for teen girls and women of every fucking ethnic group.”

Does this make you feel good Sam?  To know you participated in a harassment campaign of a woman surrounding a complete non-troversey?  So much for not punching down, eh?

everyone employed by the US federal govt is involved with an organization with overtly racist beginnings.  they should all get lambasted.

I’m going to dissect this bullshit one bit at a time:

AV Club newsroom this morning when seeing the post:

Now, almost a full week later, Kemper has finally decided to respond to the controversy by posting a statement on Instagram in which she distances herself from “the organization” (she doesn’t name it) and says that she “was old enough” at the time to have learned about it before getting involved.

Finally?

yepyepyep, I’m sure Sam feels better having gotten his pound of flesh lol

I love how the article tries to insinuate that it was terrible that she took a week to respond to this manufactured controversy. Y’all ought to be ashamed of yourselves.

Point of order, the Veiled Prophet stuff was not rooted in the KKK. White supremacy and class warfare, sure. But not explicitly the KKK.

Says the website that just tried to cancel Ellie Kemper. Seriously, AV Club can talk about how Cancel Culture doesn’t exist when you get off your high horse and issue a retraction, okay?

It’s somewhat ironic that, in trying to defend cancel culture, you’ve provided an example of one of its more insidious effects on the discourse.

“it’s mainly a problem because people get very defensive, and then paint themselves as the victim instead of taking any accountability for the actual victims they harmed.”  Except that -- as in the very case under discussion (Kemper) -- the notion that there even was any harm is self-serving bullshit.

I’m not one to watch Fox News or read Breitbart, so the version of “cancel culture” that looms largest in my orbit is the kind of cancel culture that the Harper’s Letter was talking about; namely people being driven out or marginalized by liberal institutions like Universities or Newspapers for holding heterodox…

I could not agree more. I don’t even know why I come to this site anymore. Habit I suppose.

That is kind of the thing about these “cancel culture doesn’t exist” things... usually when people say that what they actually seem to mean is either “cancel culture does exist but it’s good actually” or “cancel culture should exist but it isn’t as effective as I want it to be.”  I think a lot of them are kind of…

It matters to me. It ain’t the site it used to be. It’s become a social justice lifestyle blog, not an entertainment site. Bring back Nathan Rabin, in all his perverted glory.