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Megyn Kelly Doesn't Think Blackface Is a Big Deal

Today in “Things That Megyn Kelly Really Believes”: stop getting so worked up over blackface!

This is how Kelly started her Tuesday show: “I have to give you fair warning, I’m a little fired up over Halloween costumes.”

OK, at least she warned us! “Truly, political correctness has gone amok,” she added. She then turned to a panel of luminaries—Melissa Rivers, NBC’s Jacob Soboroff (who, in some perverse twist, is apparently being punished for his months of strong reporting on Trump’s family separation policy by being forced to be on Megyn Kelly’s panel), and Jenna Bush Hager—and the conversation took an even worse turn.

After Soboroff said that maybe people shouldn’t be racist on Halloween (good point!) Kelly jumped in:

But what is racist? Because you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface on Halloween, or a black person that puts on whiteface for halloween. And back when I was a kid, that was OK, as long as you were dressing up as, like, a character.
OOOOOOOK. Also, nobody cares if black people dress in whiteface—well, scratch that, probably people like Megyn Kelly do!

That was just a warmup for this, though:

There was a controversy on The Real Housewives of New York with Luann. She dressed as Diana Ross and she made her skin look darker than it really is. And people said that was racist. And I don’t know! Who doesn’t love Diana Ross? She wants to look like Diana Ross for one day? I don’t know how that got racist on Halloween.

All good according to Megyn Kelly!

Again, kudos to NBC News for putting this kind of thing on our television screens every single weekday.

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