Retail was the hardest, shittiest and lowest paid job I ever had.

I’m That Person at parties and happy hours because I point out that it was Sinead O’Connor who publicly called out the Catholic Church for sex abuse long before the Boston Globe ever did. The following year, a real estate developer found mass graves from the Magdalene laundries.

Very click-baity and disingenuous.  Words have meaning.  And to attempt to slander someone who by all accounts is not racist, and probably didn’t know the meaning of the ball, its all kinds of fucked up. 

Yes, yes, yes and yes. This seems more like a bullshit Twitter rabbit hole. The Root is better than this. 

It’s also not a new story. I read an article on this (I want to say last year?) and she talked about how she came from a super privileged, wealthy background and her embarrassment over her participation in this ball. I’m trying to find it now but every page of google is dominated by this latest news.

A 19 year old girl ignorant of its origins is more likely. Not that I am condoning ignorance but almost any festival in some areas of the country that date back to the civil war era and reconstruction were used to reinforce white supremacy. A lot of time and effort are used to “white wash” this past. What do we do…

It’s not *quite* accusing someone of Nazi sympathies because they once owned a VW Beetle made in the ‘70s, but it’s only a step or two removed from it.

I don’t know much about her, and the whole “ball” thing is ick but if I were outed and lambasted for every stupid thing I did as a 19yr old... well....  Also  as a 19yr old student still very much under the parentals thumb, I pretty much did what I was told to do, so...

We really doing this? Really? I mean we have Texas trying to take away the right to vote for anyone that isn’t white, actually seasons their food and can clap on the 2 & 4 and this is what you’re concerned with? I am all for multi-tasking but I am also for priorities and this ain’t it. Unless you have footage of her…

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.

Look, if we start doing “Famous person took part in institution that turned out to be hella racist” takes we’re going to be here forever because, spoiler alert, most white institutions in America are hella racist.

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…

At some point we’re going to start yelling at white people cosplaying as anime characters at conventions for insufficient woke-ness, aren’t we?

Honestly, the Japanese largely don’t give a shit about “appropriation”. As a culture, Japan feels inherently superior to everyone, and can be unapologetically racist and xenophobic. Of COURSE stupid Americans are imitating them. They seriously don’t need a bunch of bloggers trying to rescue them from cultural…

As someone who was a minor when parents were divorced and am now an attorney, it would have been cruel to make those kids testify. This is something for court-appointed therapists to discuss with the children and parents to make a determination. Having kids testify in front of a judge about which parent they like more…

Slightly disappointed you didn’t ask about the anti-drug PSA where she smashes up her kitchen with a frying pan.

I love Jill Biden.

Thinking of Donnie’s reaction to this news has cheered up a dark day. Even if he doesn’t have a stroke, he’ll be just DYING to tweet...and he can’t.

Somebody make sure that Waddles sees these remarks. After Letitia James saying they are filing a criminal complaint against him, 35 Republicans voting for a January 6 probe, and knowing that a black man is calling him a corrupt motherfucker, this might the thing that triggers his long awaited stroke.

And Jill Biden replied, “Hey Barack, hold my beer”.