Never let facts get in the way of a good outrage article. 

Bit rich coming from the pasty AV Club of all places

Welcome to: When Reposting Twitter Drama Goes Wrong - AV Club Edition.

Jesus Christ! Don’t get me started on all the stupid shit I said and did at 19! Some of it may even be spun as being racist when it was actually just utter ignorance and lack of thought. I think people forget how fucking hard of a transition time those last few years of being a teen are. Apparently, you’re capable of…

She shouldn’t have to respond to this. It’s very likely she had zero awareness of the organization’s racist past when this happened (twenty goddamn years ago); she shouldn’t have to apologize for something she had no knowledge of.

Yeah, I’d reckon most pageants in the South and Midwest have racist as hell roots. But I’m not going to blame kids and socially-obligated young adults for participating in something that lost its racist overtones decades ago.

Oh man, you didn’t check in to see how this insane stretch of a nothing-burger was getting roasted over at The Root? Cause it’s getting no traction there, and it feels like their readership should know.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that someone who was crowned “most fuckable of her barely legal peers” by a bunch of old men was probably not thinking hard about any of the implications involved. 

“At that age [19], teenagers are mature enough to know what they’re being part of.”

“I looked the group up on Altavista AND Dogpile, and all I found was their address and phone number.”

“Sorry! I should have asked Jeeves about it!” -Ellie Kemper

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

So she entered a pageant and/or attended some weird debutante event. Is there any indication that she was aware it had a racist history? It may be hard for some on here to believe, but googling the damn thing wasn’t an option in 1999.

Honestly, watching the aftermath of Jackass, and the stunts that the cast has endured, pushing just about everyone into chemical dependency that not all of them were able to escape, I’m not sure that I really want to watch any more of it.

It’s like the NFL. When I found out the prevalence of CTE in the Football and how…

Please to smash these up and use them as breading on a chicken breast at home then report the results.

How far away are we from the are Pringles a sandwich debate?

Ah, forgot about that. I gave up on Homeland part way into the second season.

Oh you wish it was that funny. I was actually going for that girl from My So Called Life scaring the living shit out Manny Patinkin in season one of Homeland.

bda31175 hard at work:

Pringles: mashed potatoes, but fun!