This guy Matt Walsh I follow hits the nail right on the head here:
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Ellie Kemper bowed to BLM and now they’re still trying to crucify her as a racist. Serves her right, honestly. No sympathy for these people. If you feed the beast and then get eaten, oh well. It’s your problem. Have fun.
Ellie Kemper Under Fire for Winning 1999 Pageant With Racist History
Twitter users were divided after a photo of actress Ellie Kemper being crowned the 1999 Queen of Love and Beauty at St. Louis’ Veiled Prophet Ball resurfaced According to a 2014 article in The Atlantic, the event’s organizers “emphasized the existing power structure” and banned Black and Jewish members.
The social media divide started with a tweet: “So was no one gonna tell me Ellie Kemper aka Kimmy Schmidt was crowned KKK queen in 1999?” asked one user, posting an old newspaper photo of the actress in a white gown.
The Veiled Prophet Ball has no known ties to the KKK, to be clear, although it has been targeted by Black Lives Matter in the past for what organizers see as its upholding of power structures in the area. The event, which is similar to a debutante ball in which parents present their children to society, has been around since the late 1870s and had an exclusionary past, according to the Atlantic piece.
“Created in 1878 by white male community leaders, the Mystic Order of the Veiled Prophet of the Enchanted Realm sought to recreate the Mardi Gras type of community-wide celebration,” says St. Louis’ own government website of the event, which is still held today. “The traditional VP celebration has represented for St. Louisans a perceived link between different components of the community in a holiday celebration, while also reinforcing the notion of a benevolent cultural elite.”
Clearly, the event is a historic and controversial one. The Queen of Love and Beauty is selected each year from among debutantes who received invitations to the ball, which traditionally excluded non-white attendees. Kemper was a 19-year-old student at Princeton when she was crowned the ball’s 105th queen.
On Twitter Sunday night, this historical context was whittled down until Kemper was branded a “KKK princess.”
“The Ellie Kemper thing is hilarious but you people don’t really think she’s like, a secret Nazi agent and not just from some dumb ass town where they make you square dance right?” wondered comedian Jake Flores.
“Ellie Kemper was in a tv show called ‘The Office’ and do you know who else had an office? Hitler,” remarked another user with sarcasm.
Ben Shapiro blasted the replies, tweeting, “There is not a single iota of evidence that Ellie Kemper is racist. So naturally, Twitter is trending her and blue checks are calling her a “KKK princess.’ What absolute garbage.”
Others used the opportunity to make a broader point about the entertainment industry: “Regardless of whether Ellie Kemper was in the KKK or whatever, it’s unethical to be a movie actor from a rich family. When you see someone who’s made it in Hollywood you assume they spent time waiting tables & playing extras in laxative commercials to make ends meet.”
Kemper’s reps have not responded to TheWrap’s request for comment. The “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” actress continued to trend on the microblogging site well into Tuesday morning, though she made no public statement.
I was working tv news in St. Louis for several years when the VP fair was a multi-day deal on the riverfront in the 80's, jam packed. The Veil Prophet's history was common knowledge, everyone chose to ignore it because, you know, a really great fireworks display that was must-see. Not being a native, it seemed to me the VP Fair's days had to be numbered.
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Let's just cancel anything that has any kind of history.
It's fucking stupid. My daughter could not have participated in the ball 130 years ago, do I get reparations? Get over yourselves people, worry about your family and your prosperity.
I hate the left.
Jesse
Sic Semper Tyrannis
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When are these people going to learn that submitting to their blackmail only empowers their captors? If your are going to apologize for this ridiculous shit then you deserve the grief that comes with it.
Originally posted by Flash-LB: You give in to bullies, it just makes them bolder.
it may hurt standing up to bullies but you'll usually have to just do it once per bully.
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
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but it would be nice to see them dragged thru the mud, media wise, for everything the posted on social media etc etc in the past,
surely some of them have a treasure trove of stupidiy and hypocrisy in tweets or fakebook pages
MSNBC's Joy(less) Reid, racist bomb thrower, had her ugly homophobic social media posts exposed a couple years back, she claimed she'd been hacked, end of story. Deaths can be laid at Al Sharpton's feet.
I'm sure there's endless dirt on leftist pukes, it's either not publicized or worn as a badge.
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Originally posted by Ripley: [QUOTE]Originally posted by lyman: ...it would be nice to see them dragged thru the mud, media wise, for everything the posted on social media etc etc in the past, surely some of them have a treasure trove of stupidiy and hypocrisy in tweets or fakebook pages
I agree, damn right it'd be nice to see.
Something will have to give soon. This is like the Salem witch trials all over again, but global.
Posts: 7487 | Location: Dallas | Registered: August 04, 2011
Well Slow Joe did say white supremacy is the greatest threat to our country during his speech in Tulsa. No mention of blm or antifa, white supremacy. Well we can report to Joe that Kimme Schmidt, the feared white supremacist, has been exposed and defeated. Now maybe we can focus on real issues? The world is upside down and backward, we are all sailing on a rudderless ship. Everyone’s a victim and no ones a leader. Hope we don’t sink before we can get some leadership in Washington. Wishful thinking
