Wait, did she attend a racist beauty pageant when she was 19?

From the era of wax people?

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My biggest problem with this whole Matthew Perry deal is it distracts us from making fun of David Schwimmer.

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 really confused here as if the parents wealth was never a secret, what is a real revelation here? That Kemper won a creepy sounding pageant when she was pretty young? Also yeah, she was 19 then, but apparently grew up in a sheltered environment and might not have been able to make certain connections about things…

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.

G/O Media Inc’s websites have really been struggling with generating content since Trump got kicked out of office.

There’s really not much of anything here. The headline and the beginning of the story made it sound like Erin from The Office was burning crosses and shit. Nope, she attended some corny debutante ball thing that has a racist past. Most of the US has a racist past.

Am I missing something? I see no connection other than the origins of the festival or party or whatever that would tie her to KKK leanings. If dumbass Black people wanted to join that bullshit, that’s of course their choice but I don’t see where she was personally connected to the KKK or even racism. I also think it’s…

Has been since 1949. If only Nixon had not given in. Fuck you, Kissinger.

Yeah of the sitcoms in the same period I like Frasier much more too. There’s just something extremely... basic about Friends which made me feel a bit meh about it.

I was there too and I dunno, I would watch about 10 minutes of it if it was on and maybe do something else. As to why it’s kind of mocked now by the younger generation, I think it just fell out of fashion - I mean, it’s probably like watching Cheers during the early 2000s. And also, television now is very different…

and look i would never cast judgement on folks who are socially anxious, struggle with ‘fitting in’ or whatever but the wave of misanthropy that emboldened people to act like they’re right and we’re wrong is getting old fast, and hopefully, exposed as you have described here.

You be afraid if you’d like. I trust the science which protected us while the disease ran rampant; the science which developed the vaccine(s) and the scientists which tell us that statistically, if you are vaccinated, the danger has mostly passed.

big dawg this is like the ninth thread you’ve spent multiple days shrieking about how dangerous and evil movie theaters are and you’re telling me YOU don’t care, that’s hilarious!

idk dude i can get you to reply pretty easily i think you care lmfao.

Sometimes we have to admit that AV club writers are essentially fan bloggers and that AV club articles are rewriting press releases. 

No, guys, she played Nick Fury. And she also used to host a show called The Oprah Winfrey Show.

It’s already over. No mask! No vax! I’m headin’ to AMC!