{"id":105589,"date":"2016-09-05T10:56:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T18:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105589"},"modified":"2016-09-05T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T18:57:00","slug":"is-that-guy-walking-in-the-dark-behind-me-a-rapist-never-mind-hes-asian-lena-dunham-faces-a-backlash-on-twitter-after-racist-tweet-from-five-years-ago-resurfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105589","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Is that guy walking in the dark behind me a rapist? Never mind, he&#8217;s Asian&#8217;: Lena Dunham faces a backlash on Twitter after &#8216;racist&#8217; tweet from five years ago resurfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3773265\/Lena-Dunham-faces-backlash-Twitter-racist-tweet-resurfaces.html\">Daily Mail<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lena Dunham faced a backlash on Twitter after a &#8216;racist&#8217; tweet she posted five years ago resurfaced this week.<br \/>\nThe 30-year-old Girls star was blasted on Friday by Twitter users for the tweet that has been branded as &#8216;gross&#8217; that she had posted back in July 2011.<br \/>\n&#8216;An uncool thought to have: &#8220;is that guy walking in the dark behind me a rapist? Never mind, he&#8217;s Asian,&#8221;&#8216; Dunham&#8217;s tweet read.<br \/>\nWhile it is not clear what caused the tweet to circulate on Friday or the context behind it, many were left angered by her thoughts.<br \/>\n&#8216;Wow Lena, way to deny Asian men&#8217;s agency,&#8217; one user responded.<br \/>\n&#8216;From an Asian woman: Dear @lenadunham the turds from your a**hole brain are getting boring,&#8217; another wrote.&#8217;<br \/>\nOne user called her out saying she could not be so lost in her &#8216;white privilege&#8217; that she thought the remark was funny, adding the hashtags &#8216;racist, problematic and you know better.&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;You carry yourself as a shining beacon of feminist smarts, many follow you, then you tweet this,&#8217; another user wrote. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/im-not-making-this-up-3\/#comment-1556686\">Comment<\/a>: *Gasp* She acknowledged that an Asian is less likely to rape her than a man of, well, what race exactly?<\/p>\n<p>This means she is \u2018ignorant\u2019 apparently. Though what she is ignorant of is never explained. That Asian men are less dangerous? This racist macro-aggression shall not stand!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Mail: Lena Dunham faced a backlash on Twitter after a &#8216;racist&#8217; 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105589\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2571],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asians"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105591,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105589\/revisions\/105591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}