If SHE can not only see and acknowledge the origins and how that was a problem - as well as be willing to acknowledge that the criticism was valid - perhaps some of you should re-examine your own initial responses too.

But judgy bullshit is the primary currency of the internet! What are you trying to do, wreck the internet economy?

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

It first came to light in 2014, as pointed out in this article. So basically all this is “hey, how come it took her a whole week to respond to this thing we just noticed was reported seven years ago?” Performative outrage is just as dumb when it comes from progressives as when it comes from FOX news.

“Now, almost a full week later, Kemper has finally decided to respond”

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.

I love how the article tries to insinuate that it was terrible that she took a week to respond to this manufactured controversy. Y’all ought to be ashamed of yourselves.

girl is a brand in herself with cookware and cookbooks and tv show appearances. anyway, she ain’t really gonna suffer from any of this. On some level though I feel all of us on the whole fucking internet are responsible for bullying Stodden.

I guess now would be an opportune time to point out that I was contractually obligated to do so. Trust and believe I would’ve never given this the time of day otherwise. But I appreciate you taking the time to give me my flowers. How kind of you. 

You are an absolute creep who spends their life scrolling through everyone’s past comments in sad attempts at demonizing them. You, more than anyone else, set the tone for the AV Club’s comment sections these days. Comments that used to be so full of fun and joy and are now a toxic, miserable place to be.

Ellie Kemper was crowned in a ball that had semi-well known KKK roots when she was 19. It came out again this week (since it was previously known), a couple of GMG sites tried to make a thing out of it,but it blew over because people recognize it’s not the story we’re being told it is.

You write for a website (and family of websites) that just tried to paint someone as a racist because in 1999 at age 19 her parents made her go to a ball that had started allowing Black people to join an insufficient amount of time (20 years) prior to that.

This is like a right wing parody of the left.

Hahahahaha, okay pal, sure.  Tell me all about  my internalized racism. 

We learned this week that you can be queen of the KKK Ball and people will justify it

It’s been discovered she doesn’t even live in Oakland. She lives in a super pricey South Bay city. She and her husband also recently had to settle a lawsuit because they refused to pay for work done on an investment property. Really stand up people here.

That is the look and posture of a man who understands he’s one comment away from catching hands for a whole group of Karens. lol

This is the reason I don’t go to public pools. Between nudity, loud voices, cursing, noisy children and PDA not one member of the modern public knows how to act in public.

Did he participate in a beauty pageant when he was 19 or something?

As a great admirer of the Smiths and his early solo work, I take no pleasure in saying that yes, Morrissey has demonstrated time and again that he is a racist prick and he deserves to be shunned. Unlike Ellie Kemper, you hacks.