Game of Thrones actor Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark) is in some hot water over alleged use of the n word. A video of Turner made its way on to the internet with the British actor in the gym pre workout saying what sounds like “What’s up my nigga?”
To be fair, Turner is British and has an accent. She could possibly be saying, “Wassup muthafuggas?” We can’t say with any certainty what was said because all we have is this video with poor audio, and if you listen to it long enough you can hear anything. We don’t know if Turner is a racist or anything remotely close to that, and frankly that isn’t the issue.
What the Twitter reactions show however is that we do have a problem in society at large with race and the way people feel about it. The mere hint of a white person using the n word and the appropriate backlash suggests we don’t live in a post racial world as is often said. The race problem in America and the world at large has never been addressed, and pretending like it doesn’t exist will only make things worse.
Watch the video of Turner in the gym with boyfriend Joe Jonas below courtesy of a Game of Thrones fan Twitter account. What is she saying in the video?
NEW: sophie turner says the n word casually and laughs about it and this marks the end of this updates account 🙂 pic.twitter.com/N6pS330vaw
— game of thrones news (@gameofupdates) May 9, 2017
The internet as we know is an unforgiving place. Flip the page for Twitter reactions to Turner.