A series of posts on Facebook and X/Twitter are now going viral for starting off a chain of online drama (and humble bragging), all because the original post featured a 38-year-old woman who seems to be a bit more weathered than others in her age group. Furthermore, the woman was mocked by a Hispanic author from New York who also went viral for allegedly triggering racists on the internet.
The online drama began on July 8 when an anonymous participant posted on the Facebook page “WHITE AND PROUD By Rochelle Bowers,” featuring an alleged 38-year-old woman who supposedly works too hard and vehemently rejects certain groups of people. “Oh, and I am white and proud. The degenerates and bane of our society could never ever make me not love myself and be proud of my heritage,” states the anonymous woman.
Facebook users immediately replied with “You look incredibly old for 38! I’m older than you by a decade, yet you look older. I wouldn’t brag about that,” and similar sentiments. However, one of the most prominent responses came from a Hispanic woman named Clara Elena Garcia who apparently lives in New York, where she posted a more youthful selfie of herself with the caption, “…and this is what 38 looks like when you are NOT a racist.”
The Hispanic woman sparked a debate
Garcia allegedly had to block too many people either for their racist tirades or for harassing her due to her posts, claiming, “Well, this post gave my block finger a good workout lol. Racists really do get triggered easily, don’t they?” Her response to the 38-year-old woman’s post has garnered support from numerous people of color; one person even joked, “Maybe she should consider letting us in, we could teach her a thing or two about self care.”
Others, however, pointed out the rather worryingly rising trend of supposed racists or racial supremacists and their online groups, “White people have ‘anonymous’ groups of racist and they think they are superior when it’s really a mental illness to spend most your time hating a group of people unwarranted and that’s not thinking about you at all. We live rent free in their heads.” However, it’s worth noting that the said group featured above may or may not be a satire page.
Still, just as Garcia stated, some X users also didn’t like her response to the 38-year-old woman from the WHITE AND PROUD group. “You can be proud of your heritage but she cannot be proud of hers? I get it,” argues a commenter, with another proudly stating, “I’d take the racist, you’re ideology is repulsive.” In any case, the post from the anonymous white supremacist woman has also sparked a chain of body and aging positivity posts from other people, some of whom were also proud of not being “racist.”
