Bias Works Both Ways

Vivien Grace
5 min readSep 17, 2019

I was accused of a hate crime and arrested because of how I look.

Outspoken celebrities, political pundits, and YouTube bloggers have built profitable public personas which create a perception that Caucasian blonde women are likely to be racist.

A few highlights (or lowlights) include:

Ann Coulter, an outspoken pundit, “regularly calls for the mass expulsion and even murder of immigrants.” https://www.mediamatters.org/ann-coulter

Tommi Lahren has over 1.4 million followers on Twitter and a daily public forum as a host on Fox Nation’s regular programs. Tommi recently sparked outrage by claiming that Beyonce’s Super Bowl performance was “trying to advance the notion that black lives matter more” and the Black Lives Matter movement to the Klu Klux Klan.

Paula Deen, a once-beloved television personality, repeatedly and shamelessly made racist gaffes and was caught on video using the n-word in 2013.

Let us not forget the blondest, and most orange of them all, President Donald Trump. Trump has made no secret of his anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim views. It seemed he had crossed a bridge too far in July 2019, when he tweeted:

“‘Progressive’ Democratic Congresswomen” should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,”

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Vivien Grace

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