VIDEO: Racist Cupcakes All the Rage This Holiday Season

There's a lot to be angry about in the world today. Neverending wars, a capsized economy, political stalemates, the Cincinnati Bengals, racist cupcakes... Wait, you didn't hear about the racist cupcakes? They're delicious and all, but ugh. Why do you have to be so racist, cupcake?

Basically it goes like this: Duncan Hines made a frosting you microwave and squeeze on to cupcakes, because apparently a runny mess of glaze now trumps ordinary frosting as the contemporary pastry topping of choice. And then, instead of sprinkles or other decor, you add lips, eyes and a vaguely Casio-generated synth-pop soundtrack. And then, instead of branding them as "synth-pop cupcakes" -- which isn't racist -- you call them "hip-hop cupcakes." Because they're black, right? Or wait -- blackface, because, you know, viscous chocolate ooze on white cake. Racist!

Duncan Hines pulled the commercial from YouTube, but Eater has it, and so here you go. I freely admit this has nothing at all to do with movies or television, but every now and then some issues transcend our inviolable beat, and someone's got to take a stand. This holiday season, send these racist cupcakes to sensitivity training -- i.e. green and/or red buttercream.

[via Andrew Sullivan]