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OKAY. THANKS FOR THE WARNING.

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…

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.”

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.

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.

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…

Still doesn’t excuse giving Sean Spicer, a fascist collaborator, money to do a two minute scene that could have easily been done by any dumpy looking white man and probably for less money.

I’m wondering if this is related to the rise of extra-shitty restaurant customers. Most reasonable people cut back on eating out and flying, so the people who are left are disproportionately terrible.

“Hey, McFly, why don’t you make like a tree and recognize that most people’s conception of ‘gender’ is a societal construct?” just doesn’t have the same zip.

Agreed. Also a child of divorce. I’m always hesitant to say anything negative about Jolie on this site (because I’ll be set on fire), but when it comes to court proceedings/judgements/decisions, there is NO way it becomes public knowledge unless someone is releasing the information to the press.

You should go into severe denial about it. That’s how my in-laws rationalize rolling coal.

It seems like if your whole deal is pushing engines to the point of catastrophic failure, you should, you know, prepare for that catastrophic failure. 

Okay, just as a rule for us to use in this trying time (and at all times, really,) when a god tells you to do stupid awful things, and especially stupid and awful things to children, do not listen to that god. Find a different god. Like the cake god, for example. The cake god will never hurt you and only wants you to…

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…