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Lena Dunham came under fire last week over a Lenny Letter interview with Amy Schumer, in which she said NFL star Odell Beckham Jr. ignored her at the Met Gala because of her appearance. "He looked at me and he determined I was not the shape of a woman by his standards," she said. Twitter users criticised her for implying he was superficial, and some viewed her sense of entitlement to his time as racist. Dunham apologised over Instagram, but not everyone was buying it — and many saw the comments as part of a larger problem with Dunham and her brand of feminism. Adding to that, people have dug up these tweets from Dunham expressing similarly problematic views.

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@lenadunham @SophiaTassew she is seriously one of the worse form of humans.
— Daynss. (@DaynssWorld) September 2, 2016

@lenadunham you carry yourself as a shining beacon of feminist smarts, many follow you, then you tweet this...
— ⤵︎ (@CodyBrown) September 2, 2016

The fact that that Lena Dunham quote is from 2011 would be irrelevant if she didn't prove since then that she is a consistent racist
— Livia Tsang (@liviatsang) September 4, 2016

Idk why @lenadunham is acting out when she has a history of racist tweets and is on a show with 0 diversity ???
— Mohamed Iman (@MohamedHIman) September 3, 2016

@lenadunham you gonna apologize for those gross racist tweets tho? ?
— jenna (@stellarfem) September 4, 2016

Twitter also hasn't let Dunham live down an Instagram post implying that wearing a headscarf was "fundamentalist."

I personally hope Lena Dunham becomes in charge of Muslim outreach for Hillary's campaign pic.twitter.com/UKgy95PA9a
— Michael Curry ☭ (@mcurryfelidae07) July 27, 2016

People are especially frustrated that Dunham is often viewed as a feminist icon. Many consider her a prime example of white feminism — that is, feminism that excludes women of colour.

Entitlement, mixed with white feminism, plus a healthy dash of self centeredness = Lena Dunham dumpster fire today. pic.twitter.com/eUZE7URWnG
— Heather Matarazzo (@HeatherMatarazz) September 3, 2016

Dunham has a history of apologising for insensitive racial comments, and we're glad she's at least trying to learn from her mistakes. But we're also glad people haven't stopped calling her out on them.

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