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joeybee12

(56,177 posts) Mon Sep 16, 2013, 10:54 AM Sep 2013

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First Indian-American Wins Miss America Crown; Racist Trolls hit the Web

The crowning of the latest Miss America has stirred up the ugly side of social media.

Miss New York, Syracuse native Nina Davuluri, won the crown Sunday night, and as soon as she did, Twitter lit up with comments suggesting she was an Arab, a foreigner, and a terrorist with ties to Al Qaeda.

Why the hate?

Davuluri, who aspires to be a doctor like her father, is the first Miss America whose family comes from India. Her win also happens to be the second consecutive victory for New York, but that got lost in tweets by people who couldn't look past her skin-deep beauty.

“Congratulations Al-Qaeda. Our Miss America is one of you,” tweeted "De La Rutherford," or @Blayne_MkltRain, who has since pulled down the full Twitter profile.

http://www.today.com/style/new-miss-americas-heritage-evokes-racist-comments-twitter-8C11167234

The stupid, it burns!

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First Indian-American Wins Miss America Crown; Racist Trolls hit the Web (Original Post) joeybee12 Sep 2013 OP

Just horrible. SummerSnow Sep 2013 #1

Al Qaeda? treestar Sep 2013 #2

Some of the posts were just sickening yuiyoshida Sep 2013 #3

Congratulations Nina! UtahLib Sep 2013 #4

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)

1. Just horrible.

Reply to joeybee12 (Original post)

Mon Sep 16, 2013, 11:09 AM

Sep 2013

People are sick and evil

treestar

(82,383 posts)

2. Al Qaeda?

Reply to joeybee12 (Original post)

Mon Sep 16, 2013, 11:10 AM

Sep 2013

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)

3. Some of the posts were just sickening

Reply to joeybee12 (Original post)

Mon Sep 16, 2013, 11:16 AM

Sep 2013

Its amazing how many haters there are in this country.

UtahLib

(3,179 posts)

4. Congratulations Nina!

Reply to joeybee12 (Original post)

Mon Sep 16, 2013, 11:23 AM

Sep 2013

The haters can never seem to resist flaunting their stupidity.

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