Stacey Dash Responds to BET Backlash by Accusing the Network of Lying to Black People and Promoting Segregation

"BET lies to American black people," Dash claims.

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That distinctly American process of someone saying something absolutely ridiculous with just enough volume to cause a response, only to then respond to the response with something even worse, is going swimmingly for Clueless star and Fox News contributor Stacey Dash. Dash, of course, fell into headlines earlier this week after outright calling for the dismantling of BET, Black History Month, and the NAACP Image Awards in the wake of the ongoing #OscarsSoWhite controversy.

Of course, a predictably huge amount of people are taking Dash to task for her incendiary remarks. However, in a fitting act of retaliation, no one is coming at Dash with quite as much hashtag-supported force as BET:

In a new essay pointedly titled "How BET Lies to Black People," Dash directly responds to BET's ongoing hashtag commentary with some decidedly inflammatory chunks of prose, including stuff like this:

After citing some text from conservative outlet National Review, Dash then doubles down on her criticism of the network by essentially restating what she already said but in an even more offensive way:

As previously reported, Stacey Dash is most likely a troll. Do with that information what you will.

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