Congrats, this post is dumber than the article...which says a lot!

Why do you feel the need to defend AVClub so hard? Did someone bump into it?

You think the only people who found this story to be a ridiculous nothing-burger were dudes?

In 22 years, everyone gets to track down Sam Barsanti and co. to remind them of how, in 2021, they used an event from 1999 to mount a stunningly dishonest assault on someone’s reputation in order to earn ad revenue for Gizmodo Media Group.

Agreed. I take issue with “(rightful) attack.” Kemper has spoken about and apologized for this, and she is in no way responsible for this organization’s racist past. I can’t think of many things over twenty years old that DON’T have a racist past!

Were there roving bands of self-important dopes deliberately bumping into the women for the express purpose of prompting the irritated response? Because if not, it pretty much ruins the comparison.

First article was the cake, this shitpost is the icing.

Does this make you feel good Sam?  To know you participated in a harassment campaign of a woman surrounding a complete non-troversey?  So much for not punching down, eh?

Nice, AV Club reaching newer, disgusting lows all the time!!

The original article by AV Club, combined with this insolent follow-up, has done more to further discredit progressivism than anything I’ve seen in a long time.

She didn’t need to respond, because it was already established this was simply a fabrication by hyperventilating “woke” internet caricatures looking for yet another reason to be fauxraged.

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.

Great response from Kemper, especially when she absolutely did not need to dignify the outrage machine—which The A.V. Club fed.

I think marginally less of her for paying attention to such bullshit at all.

And, I would add, less interested in this web site.

She shouldn’t have said boo, because she had nothing for which to apologize.

Will we get an apology from Tenreyro for that piece of shit column about this?

Finally?

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.

Jake Flores said it best