Lately topped Miss Washington Teen USA, Kate Dixon, is going through some backlash as a clip of her utilizing a racial slur has resurfaced, with many viewers requesting that she loses her title.
In a video posted to TikTok on February 8 by @juliuspleazerfanaccount, a clip is proven of Dixon, 17, asserting her win. Nevertheless, following that, there’s a completely different clip of Dixon saying the n-word.
This TikTok clip additionally reveals Dixon and a woman lip-syncing to this sound within the background: “I’m Amber. I solely love males once they have cash and massive c***s.”
“I screamed. This occurred 2 days in the past,” the caption reads, in reference to Dixon receiving her title.
The TikTok video has over 9.1m views, to date, with viewers within the feedback emphasising how inappropriate it was for Dixon to say the n-word.
“Actually why is everybody appearing prefer it’s okay that she stated a literal slur?” one particular person wrote, whereas one other stated: “Y’all it’s about her having to carry up a really huge repute and title and her doing the exact opposite.”
A number of TikTok customers expressed that now that this clip has been resurfaced, Dixon’s title needs to be revoked.
“As a former Pagent woman…her crown needs to be given to the primary runner up,” one viewer wrote.
“Actually take her crown again,” a TikTok person commented.
Many viewers particularly tagged @missteenusa’s TikTok account within the feedback, certainly one of which stated: “so y’all simply be letting anybody be miss teen.”
Others agreed that there needs to be some type of penalties that Dixon ought to face for saying the n-word.
“Fairly privilege!! [Dixon’s] getting no punishment for doing that,” a viewer wrote, whereas one other stated: “Simply because she stated it years in the past, doesn’t make it okay. She must know that her actions have penalties.”
In one other TikTok video, @juliuspleazerfanaccount shared broadcast footage from KIRO 7 discussing Dixon, which included third runner-up Hannah Merrit’s ideas about this incident.
“As an African-American girl who’s walked that stage 4 occasions and has the load of so many little ladies on my shoulders, to know that Kate, who won’t ever perceive that, received, it’s simply actually tiring,” Merritt stated.
Talking to FOX 13, Dixon shared her response to the criticism she’s obtained from this clip, together with particulars about when it was filmed.
She stated that it was from three years in the past, and he or she was in a automotive with upperclassmen, who pressured her into saying the n-word.
“They coerced me into saying a racial slur. I advised them ‘no, I don’t wish to say that,” she stated. ”I do know that it’s not applicable. They usually advised me ‘you might have a free move simply this one time, it could be humorous.’ So I made a decision, after a lot persuasion, I stated the phrase that they needed me to say and with out my information I used to be recorded.”
The clip was posted on-line every week after it was filmed. Because of this on the time, Dixon publicly apologised, however stated she was nonetheless bullied afterward. She claimed that each time she achieved one thing, the video finally ends up resurfacing.
Nevertheless, she advised FOX 13 that she nonetheless desires to take this case as a studying alternative and issued one other apology.
“Truthfully having gone by this expertise, I really feel such as you don’t understand the true that means of how one thing can have an effect on you that’s posted on-line till you’re caught in a state of affairs like mine,” she defined. “The place one thing adverse out of your previous, as a result of it being on social media, involves resurface once more.
“I feel most of all that in the event that they really feel offended by this that I’m very deeply sorry, that I’ve realized my lesson and I’ve not used that phrase to this present day,” she continued. “I’ve not used that phrase.”
FOX 13 additionally spoke to the chief producer of Pageants Northwest, the company that manages Miss Washington Teen USA. They famous that they knew about Dixon’s video in October 2020, and spoke with Dixon and her household about it. The company nonetheless determined to let her compete, saying that the pageant’s purpose is to encourage folks “to be the very best variations of themselves.”
The Impartial has reached out to Dixon and the Miss Washington Teen USA pageant for remark.
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