Pageant fans tweet racist insults
Viewers disappointed by the outcome of this week’s Miss America pageant took to Twitter to hurl racist insults at Miss New York, its newly crowned winner. A deluge of tweets called Nina Davuluri, who is an Indian-American born in the U.S., “an Arab,” “Miss 9/11,” and “a terrorist,” and complained that her coronation was anti-American.
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