I didn't watch the Oscars because frankly, I could not care less. I have heard from multiple sources that Seth MacFarlane was a flaming disaster of offensive non-comedy. However bad he was though, the Onion took it so much further far over the line with their tweet about Quvenzhane Wallis.
I don't usually shy away from calling out offensiveness with the offenders actual words, but in this case I will not re-post the screen shot of the tweet in question. You can see it here along with some great commentary about it.
Think this isn't about race and the sexualizing of women of color?
When was the last time you saw a comment like that about a white woman?
When was the last time you saw it made about a
NINE. YEAR. OLD. CHILD.
If I was the Onion, I would be very publicly firing the racist and class-less person who thought that tweet would be appropriate.
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