Kim Kardashian's week has already taken a drama-filled turn - and the Internet is not happy with her.
People reports that Kim caught some heat from makeup artist and beauty vlogger Jeffree star, who took to Twitter to criticize her new powder contour kits, describing them as looking, "like chalk." While Kim herself didn't respond to the Twitter call-out, her fans naturally rushed to her defense, bringing up racist comments Star made in a video several years back.
However, things took a turn for the worse when Kim opted to use her Snapchat story to tell fans to "get off his ass," and "stop being so petty bringing up things in his past." While we'd normally be all for deciding to look past the drama, many of Kim's fans are dragging her for taking Star's racism lightly, especially when she herself has two black children.
Kim Kardashian can keep that garbage Ass statement about ppl forgiving Jeffree Star to herself. Baby you have TWO. BLACK. CHILDREN.
— Jay Dior (@JayKenMinaj) August 15, 2017
Idc how Kim Kardashian feels about Jeffree Star. His apology wasn't for her to accept, since his comments weren't aimed at her. Bye! pic.twitter.com/cPswMwXfod
— Dewayne (@MoreDewayne) August 15, 2017
Many also brought up the events in Charlottesville, Virginia this past weekend as further evidence that now is definitely the wrong time to be calling racism "petty." (As in, wrong time, wrong place Kim.)
Goodmorning to everyone except Kim Kardashian who after a Nazi rally told black people to "get over"& not be petty 4 racism by Jefree Star
— Syd (@sydnii_1) August 15, 2017
Racism isn't petty @KimKardashian it's wrong. Your video was full of poor choice words and BAD TIMING.
— Lil Ole Me (@FancyPea) August 15, 2017
In any case, Kim seems to have taken note of the backlash, and took to Snapchat on Tuesday to offer an apology.
"I really wanted to apologize to you guys and my fans for defending a situation yesterday that I really didn’t know enough about,” she said in the Snapchat live-stream. “I just feel a bit naïve, and I do want to really apologize for me feeling like I had the right to say ‘get over it’ in a situation that involves racism."