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The Root actually just straight up referred to Kemper as “KKK princess”. Both the Root and AVC seem to have done no actual research themselves; they're just parroting what was said on Twitter.

You’re absolutely right. I was writing all of that in between classes and in my haste I went by what Barsanti himself says in that same paragraph:

Jesus, just when I was about ready to write off this site for good, a thoughtful, insightful long-form piece like this drops at the end of the day.

I still read Iggy’s and Dowd’s film reviews, along with some of the regular and semi-regular features like Vago’s “Wiki Wormhole”, Siede’s “When Romance Met Comedy”, and Breihan’s “Popcorn Champs”, along with some of what Perkins does. But yeah, reading AVC has very much become a…

When the revolution comes, I’ll be right there on the front lines.

Exactly. People keep acting like she could have whipped out her smartphone and googled “Fair St. Louis” to get a rundown of its racist history like you can today.

Eh. I’m an English prof and today was the first day of the summer semester. I was just killing time in between classes.

It’s sad how GMG posts are being cited as examples of bad-faith arguments by pretty much every respectable publication who picked up this story. They’re including the headline from The Root calling Kemper “a KKK princess” and AVC declaring that she has a “racist past” before going on to explain how it’s…

The funny thing is that I’m not some huge fan of Kemper’s. I didn’t watch The Office. I thought that she was good in Bridesmaids. I liked Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and thought that she was good in it, too, but it’s not like she’s one of my favorite actors.

I love how he and the other GMG hacks keep trying to make this out to be like it’s something from The Wicker Man or Midsommar. Even when it was unquestionably a racist event ran by a racist organization, it was still just a fucking beauty pageant/debutante ball. It wasn’t like the “Battle Royal” chapter from Ellison’s …

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

LOL Of course Barsanti is who they call on to double-down on this bullshit, and of course he gets just as much wrong about the actual truth, how shit unfolded, and Kemper’s apology.

Yeah I just added her Instgram post above. Someone sent me a link from the Independent a bit ago:

That and this bit from the end of the post: “Teigen left Twitter again after writing her apology. However, this time, she didn’t deactivate, so people can still read her response to Stodden”.

I think that the whole piece should be retracted. One other thing that gets me is that this is how Tenreyro’s other post about this bullying bullshit ends:

I love how this same writer has written not one but two posts about Teigen that have worked to minimize how fucked up it was to bully someone by telling them to kill themselves: “Teigen took accountability, apologizing to Stodden in a Twitter thread. But because she knew her past actions would overshadow the surprise…

Replying to you here (about the Grimes on Communism article at the AVC) because Kinja is awful and when I try to click “reply” directly to your message it doesn’t work, when I go the long way and click on “Pending” to scroll down to your message it shows only like half of each thread and your message isn’t there, etc.

For a second I thought that was Brock Samson in the header image.

Well, I’m working in a factory