# I Am Somewhat Upset Over Two Things (Miss America related)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [September 16, 2013, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969 "2013-09-16T13:46:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 4
### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2013, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/61 "2013-09-17T02:22:44Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#):
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> And she should want to go to college to be a veterinarian because she loves children.
I’m sure this is an honor which she’ll remember for as long as she can.
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### Author:  [@sentrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sentrix)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2013, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/62 "2013-09-17T02:38:25Z")
> [@dropzone](#):
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> Probably all for the best. Had she won they’d’ve offered her champagne and tried to wine and dine her and a woman is only so strong on the happiest day of her life so she’d have to reset her sobriety date.
> Great suggestion! Mind if I modify the search with “Salma Hayek nude” or “Salma Hayek From Dusk Till Dawn?”
great scene this. it should be compulsory that all miss merka contestants dance with a snake.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnJJ2fojawE)
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/63 "2013-09-17T02:50:52Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#):
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> I don’t see what the problem is. Miss America is supposed to be white, blonde, and lantern-jawed, and must belt out a country song and send at least one shout-out to the one true Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. All the other contestants are basically extras in a police lineup.
I do remember the year that Miss Ohio, for her talent, did a belly dance routine. Whoa, it was really hot for the time. She’d had a very modest gown and swimsuit, with her hair up in a knot, for the dance it hung way down, and you saw a lot of jingly costume, and a lot of skin too. Not the usual talent for the time(At least twentyfive years ago)
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2013, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/64 "2013-09-17T03:25:30Z")
> [@sentrix](#):
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> great scene this. it should be compulsory that all miss merka contestants dance with a snake.
It used to be, when Gary Collins hosted.
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### Author:  [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2013, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/65 "2013-09-17T05:22:43Z")
Some other choice bits from one of the Twitter users highlighted elsewhere online for his racist comments about Miss America:
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> Lol ask the chink the only serious question of the night
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> shit why do u care chink is just short for Chinese in my opinion u only have so many characters on twitter got to keep it short
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> I’m not real sure why everybody cares what I think it’s my own opinion and Muslim is NOT a race it’s a fucking religion so I’m not racist
Way to prove the point, dude.
My only comfort is that the Internet is forever, tempered by the knowledge that someone who ends up this way is probably surrounded by people who think like him, so he’ll never change (then again, the thought of him never really stepping into civilized society is a BIT comforting in of itself).
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### Author:  [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2013, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/66 "2013-09-17T11:14:37Z")
Is there any event, any event whatsoever, that doesn’t cause some idiots to send out stupid tweets? Why is the fact that something like this causes these jerks to twitter about it in a racist fashion even interesting? Thirty years ago we only had to listen to the people that could manage to get their message out in magazines or newspapers or on TV or radio. Now everybody gets their own platform to talk to the world. Ignore them. There are no more or less stupid, racist jerks than there ever were.
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### Author:  [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2013, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/67 "2013-09-17T11:48:40Z")
> [@Shodan](#):
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> OK, she’s pretty and all, but can she help me set up my router?
> Regards,
> Shodan
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> Is she the one that keeps calling me and claiming to work for “Microsoft Windows Technical Services” ?
> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> Miss America was outsourced?
I’m sure you all think you’re being funny, and you mean no harm, but you’re not exactly helping.
What bugs me more than anything is that the racist idiots are jumping on this woman who was born in America, raised in America, educated in America, and has lived in America all her life. There is no way to be _more_ American than Nina Davuluri.
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2013, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/68 "2013-09-17T12:05:12Z")
> [@you\_with\_the\_face](#):
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> I think what is disturbing is not that folks like this exist, but that they apparently feel no shame in broadcasting it.
Twitter is the modern day equivalent of scribbling on the walls of the bathroom stall. I’m not sure why anyone is surprised.
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2013, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/69 "2013-09-17T12:50:55Z")
Y’know, I realized only recently that unlike Trump’s Miss USA/Miss Universe (where our girl competes as a separate country), in the (separate entity) Miss America competition there is a Miss Puerto Rico in the running. Now SHE would make for a perfect storm, since on top of the racist/supremacist garbage she would also get knocks over how _“If it’s not a State it should not be in Miss America”_ from the stateside idiots AND over _"Assimilated sellout w_\*_e! If you want to be Miss America you should move, and anyway it’s wrong and imperialistic to call the US America"_ from the islandside idiots.
And in any case, twitter is the home of twits, that much has been clear all along.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2013, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/70 "2013-09-17T12:59:41Z")
> [@Antigen](#):
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> I’m sure you all think you’re being funny, and you mean no harm, but you’re not exactly helping.
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> What bugs me more than anything is that the racist idiots are jumping on this woman who was born in America, raised in America, educated in America, and has lived in America all her life. There is no way to be _more_ American than Nina Davuluri.
They’re helping me laugh. That’s more than Miss America, any Miss America, ever did for me.
Except for the chick that made those anti-gay pro-God comments and it ended up she had a sex tape out there. That was pretty funny too.
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### Author:  [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2013, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/71 "2013-09-17T14:07:06Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> They’re helping me laugh. That’s more than Miss America, any Miss America, ever did for me.
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> Except for the chick that made those anti-gay pro-God comments and it ended up she had a sex tape out there. That was pretty funny too.
That was Miss USA & actually it was some revealing photos, not a sex tape.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2013, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/72 "2013-09-17T14:09:41Z")
> [@FriarTed](#):
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> That was Miss USA & actually it was some revealing photos, not a sex tape.
I animated them in my head. Close enough.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2013, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/73 "2013-09-17T14:10:02Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#):
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> There are no more or less stupid, racist jerks than there ever were.
Oh, less, I should hope, simply because, while stupidity is eternal, racism is a thing now passe.
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### Author:  [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/74 "2013-09-17T15:04:44Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> This guy/gal at least has a “Simpsons” understanding of geography:
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> _Miss America? You mean Miss 7-11._
Yeah, but the stereotype is 20 years out of date. The stereotype now is they outsourced your job, or they’re a doctor.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2013, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/75 "2013-09-17T15:12:40Z")
> [@Antigen](#):
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> There is no way to be _more_ American than Nina Davuluri.
She could have been born a cheeseburger.
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### Author:  [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2013, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/76 "2013-09-17T15:23:24Z")
> [@Loach](#):
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> Twitter is the modern day equivalent of scribbling on the walls of the bathroom stall. I’m not sure why anyone is surprised.
You do not want to know what I am doing just now :dubious:
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2013, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/77 "2013-09-17T16:10:00Z")
> [@Antigen](#):
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> I’m sure you all think you’re being funny, and you mean no harm, but you’re not exactly helping.
There’s nothing _to_ help. Some percentage of the American population (any population, really) is made up of idiots. Nothing we can say is going to change that, so we may as well amuse ourselves.
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### Author:  [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2013, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/78 "2013-09-17T16:20:41Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> There’s nothing _to_ help. Some percentage of the American population (any population, really) is made up of idiots. Nothing we can say is going to change that, so we may as well amuse ourselves.
TBF, the Dope’s mission statement is to fight ignorance, which tends to be a major component of idiocy. Though, I suppose mockery and shaming could be perceived as a weapon in that fight.
(though it is not altogether clear that registering on SDMB implies that one is signing up to fight alongside the foes of ignorance)
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2013, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/79 "2013-09-17T16:55:38Z")
> [@Antigen](#):
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> I’m sure you all think you’re being funny, and you mean no harm, but you’re not exactly
Meh. Wrhnic humor has a long tradition in the US.
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### Author:  [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2013, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/80 "2013-09-17T17:02:35Z")
So did minstrelry. Adding BUT AS A JOKE at the end of racism doesn’t make it any better.
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