The INSIDER Summary:

• Kim Kardashian posted two Snapchat videos defending beauty blogger Jeffree Star.
• Kardashian's fans brought up racist comments that Star made in past videos after the blogger criticized her swatching skills.
• The KKW Beauty founder urged her fans to "get off his a--" in a video on Snapchat.
• She said: "I do not support people who are racist. That's why I so appreciate that he apologized and was really honest about things he's said in the past. So just [...] don't bring it up anymore."
• People reacted strongly on Twitter, arguing that Kardashian's defense of Star is problematic.

People watching Kim Kardashian West's Snapchat story on Monday were shocked when the reality star sent a message to her fans in defense of the beauty blogger Jeffree Star, who has been criticized for making racist comments in the past.

Star has openly criticized Kardashian's makeup line before and more recently took aim at the way the KKW Beauty founder swatched her products, according to Marie Claire. When the reality star took to Snapchat to thank Star for "being honest" about her swatching skills, she also dove into a discussion about racist comments that Star made in videos from 2005.

In a series of Snapchat videos, Kardashian urged her fans to "get off his a--" and stop bringing up things from the blogger's past. Her fans mentioned the comments from Star's past videos after he critiqued Kardashian's product swatches.

"Guys, I see you being so petty, bringing up things in his past where he [...] was negative [...] but he's also apologized for those things and I get it's a serious deal if you say racial things, but I do believe in people changing, and people that apologize," she said. "I will give them the benefit of the doubt and accept that you know people change and move on."

She added: "I know better than anyone that I hate when people bring up my past or mistakes I've made in the past. So let him live."

Here's the first Snapchat video:

In the next, Kardashian was even more blunt: "Everyone get off his a-- and let's not be so negative. We're all in this together, there's room for all of us. Love you, Jeffree," she said.

"And I want to make one last thing clear, I do not defend people that are racist and I am very against it. But if someone claims that they have changed, I would love to give them the benefit of the doubt, and I pray to God that they do change for the sake of my children and my friends," she said. "I do not support people that are racist. That's why I so appreciate that he apologized and was really honest about things he's said in the past. So just [...] don't bring it up anymore [...] People want to forget the negative things they do in the past and I do, too."

Many people reacted strongly on Twitter, arguing that Kardashian's defense of Star is incredibly problematic.

Others pointed out the contradiction in her message.

Instagram users had similar reactions to Kardashian's Snapchat message. "She was wrong for defending him ... just because he apologized for his racist remarks in the past doesn't make him any less racist," one person commented on a video shared by an Instagram account that shares Kardashian's Snapchats.

However, a few people argued that there was nothing wrong with what she said. "Haters go and fill yourself with your own negativity... kim i love you," someone else wrote.

Although Star has criticized Kardashian's beauty line before, the two appear to be friendly. The reality star posed with Star at the launch of KKW Beauty (in the seventh photo below):

Star addressed the racism in his past videos quite recently, posting a 15-minute video apology to YouTube in June. 

Here's an excerpt from the video: 

"In these videos I say some really disgusting, vile, nasty, and embarrassing things. [...] Those videos were 12 years ago, and I look at them, and I see them resurfaced, and it just makes me sick to my stomach because I don't know who that person was [...] The person who said those horrible, vile things — that person was depressed, that person was just angry at the world, that person felt like they were not accepted, that person was seeking attention. [...] But does that make it okay? Absolutely not. I want to look everyone in the eyes and let you know that everything that you have seen is so, just, wrong. It's upsetting, it's nasty, it really makes me sick to my stomach because what I was saying is not what I represent. I think that racism is a very serious subject especially in today's world. I'm embarrassed as a person because that is not what I've ever stood for."

INSIDER has contacted a representative for Jeffree Star for comment and had not heard back at the time of this post.

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