It’s not even evidence she was racist back then!

“Imagine if she’d joined the Army? It was segregated until 1948.”

Kemper was 19 years old when she was selected to be the Queen Of Love And Beauty. At that age, teenagers are mature enough to know what they’re being part of.

Fair point, I rather meant it more that it wasn’t the term and expectation that it is now.

To be fair, it’s been absolutely blowing up on Twitter, so it’s totally fair game to write an article about. I just wish the article had been more even-handed.

Who’s going to prosecute? The same people agreeing with him?

When they used ‘KKK Princess’ in the headline you’re expecting some crazy shit but after reading the story you realize it’s major hyperbole.

You guys have printed a fair amount of extraordinarily weak outrage-seeking shit over the past couple years, but this might take the cake. I rate this clickbait seven “UGH”s out of a possible five.

How would I know that? A quick Google image search shows at a few scattered BIPOC have been involved in recent years, but I have no idea when they actually started to make inroads. It’s a shitty organization either way. I’m not defending it. Just pointing out that there’s a difference between “Future celebrity…

Money, actually.  He says somethign stupid, there’s a reaction, and then gets to send fundraising emails out mentioning how the media is trying to shut him up.  Works every time.

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’m really confused here as if the parents wealth was never a secret, what is a real revelation here? That Kemper won a creepy sounding pageant when she was pretty young? Also yeah, she was 19 then, but apparently grew up in a sheltered environment and might not have been able to make certain connections about things…

The Atlantic reported in 2014 that the Veiled Prophet Organization barred Black and Jewish people from joining.

I’m surprised AV Club went with this take when even the comments section of The Root went “Eh, this is stretching it.”

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.

I would like to remind everyone who wishes Q and Trumpism would go away that one of America’s 50 states is run by the Mormon Church, a similar movement born of rubes and credulism started by scheming hucksters that survived an actual extermination order in Missouri, a westward trek that made them resort to…

That’s exactly the type of statement a George Soros bot account would make! 

Flynn’s just straight-up asking for a court-martial, arrest for sedition, or both, right?

Trump’s reportedly been telling people he’ll be president again by August.