Moments after her coronation, Twitter archeologists found several instances of the white teen queen using the N-word on Twitter.
Last Saturday, in the wake of Hillary Clinton’s historic nomination in Philly, Miss Teen USA Karlie Hay gracefully accepted her own crown.
Hay’s Las Vegas competition, which featured a personal interview component as well as evening gown and athletic wear categories, was equally hard won. The Texas native was faced with the challenge of a lifetime—a final five lineup including four of her blonde, Southern doppelgängers. When the competition’s Twitter account shared an eerie picstitch of these proto-Stepford Wives, queen of Twitter Chrissy Teigen immediately took issue, sarcastically musing, “Wow how can we choose from such a diverse bunch.”
The teen beauty pageant, which is celebrating its very first year
sans creepy swimsuit competition, has never been famous for its progressive politics. Still, hand-selecting five blonde slices of Wonder Bread out of a relatively diverse group of 51 teen pageant queens was not a good call. You can’t pull that kind of shit anymore—it’s 2016, and we have Twitter now (and Chrissy Teigen)!
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