Lena Dunham faced a backlash on Twitter after a ‘racist’ tweet she posted five years ago resurfaced this week.
The 30-year-old Girls star was blasted on Friday by Twitter users for the tweet that has been branded as ‘gross’ that she had posted back in July 2011.
‘An uncool thought to have: “is that guy walking in the dark behind me a rapist? Never mind, he’s Asian,”‘ Dunham’s tweet read.
While it is not clear what caused the tweet to circulate on Friday or the context behind it, many were left angered by her thoughts.
‘Wow Lena, way to deny Asian men’s agency,’ one user responded.
‘From an Asian woman: Dear @lenadunham the turds from your a**hole brain are getting boring,’ another wrote.’
One user called her out saying she could not be so lost in her ‘white privilege’ that she thought the remark was funny, adding the hashtags ‘racist, problematic and you know better.’
‘You carry yourself as a shining beacon of feminist smarts, many follow you, then you tweet this,’ another user wrote.
Comment: *Gasp* She acknowledged that an Asian is less likely to rape her than a man of, well, what race exactly?
This means she is ‘ignorant’ apparently. Though what she is ignorant of is never explained. That Asian men are less dangerous? This racist macro-aggression shall not stand!
