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RantCrush Top 5: August 17, 2016

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Ellen DeGeneres and The No Good, Very Bad Meme

There’s tasteful and then there’s classy. Ellen DeGeneres riding on a speedy Usain Bolt is neither of those.

DeGeneres’ photoshopped meme wasn’t received by well by the Twitterverse. The comedienne has since faced some major backlash as many people were quick to note the negative implications of a white woman riding on a black man’s back.

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Still, supporters of Ellen and others think it’s a reach to call Ellen DeGeneres “racist” for tweeting the meme in the first place.

Maybe the meme, like so many memes in 2016, wasn’t THAT funny. I mean Ellen has been known to make some pretty bad jokes.

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