The doctor will NOT see you now!
Ellen Pompeo has been very vocal about her hatred for hate speech during this election cycle, and Donald Trump‘s unfortunate rise to power isn’t about to shut her up.
In fact, the Grey’s Anatomy actress is actually going out of her way to call out injustice under the rule of the racist Republican!
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As you may have seen, A&E made headlines this week when they announced their upcoming docuseries Generation KKK.
Well, like most sane Americans, Ellen was immediately turned off by the idea of giving white supremacists their own reality show — so she took to Twitter for an epic rant against the network on Wednesday!
She even urged others to boycott the channel entirely, tweeting:
Shame on you @AETV https://t.co/eeGrdYbdjS
— Ellen Pompeo (@EllenPompeo) December 21, 2016
Hey I have an idea…why don’t we all never watch ANYTHING on A&E again who’s with me????
— Ellen Pompeo (@EllenPompeo) December 21, 2016
maybe @AETV you should just run episodes of @GreysABC instead… we are smarter more compassionate and oh yeah way better looking ├ó┼ô┼Æ├░┼╕┬Å┬╛├░┼╕ΓÇÿ┬ì├░┼╕┬Å┬╛
— Ellen Pompeo (@EllenPompeo) December 21, 2016
So I guess A&E stands for …we will try to put Anything and Everything on tv… because we are a bunch of desperate pathetic tv execs ├░┼╕ΓÇÿ┬ì├░┼╕┬Å┬╛
— Ellen Pompeo (@EllenPompeo) December 21, 2016
We shouldn’t be giving ignorance a platform we already did that this year and look what it got us https://t.co/kkl0bEYo2E
— Ellen Pompeo (@EllenPompeo) December 21, 2016
The timing of this show angers me the most they are capitalizing on a disgusting wave that Trump started and media is normalizing NOT OK
— Ellen Pompeo (@EllenPompeo) December 21, 2016
But what did A&E have to say about the show??
@EllenPompeo The @aetv doc is abt extracting families from the KKK & exposing hate. ADL supports. Please take a look https://t.co/w0muB0OSa0
— A&E Network (@AETV) December 21, 2016
Okay if that is what it is PLEASE promote it as such…PLEASE https://t.co/q4j2EWaxyq
— Ellen Pompeo (@EllenPompeo) December 21, 2016
To their credit, producers reportedly filmed the project as a documentary and not a reality show… which means participants weren’t paid.
So maybe the docuseries actually will be educational after all!
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But we can see why Ellen (and many others) are upset about the show because it definitely looks like it’s giving some KKK members a platform to tell their side…
Ch-ch-check out a sneak peek of Generation KKK before its premiere Tuesday, January 10 on A&E (below) and decide for yourself whether the show deserves a boycott!!!
[Image via ABC and A&E.]
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