You’ve probably heard of the racist “UCLA Girl” as she’s known, Alexandra Wallace. Back in 2011, she received death threats due to her moronic YouTube rant against Asian student cell phone usage in the school library. She did issue a public apology in the school newspaper, and later left UCLA. Making racist defamatory remarks slandering against Asians and Asian-Americans, especially in the wake of the Japan tsunami wasn’t so smart.
At least she smart enough to leave school. I don’t know why Alexandra Wallace keeps popping up in the search engines though, or why this post keeps coming back up. Alexandra Wallace comes off as someone with future stripper or Penthouse Pet written all over her. So what did happen to her?
Watching the video, and the house music remix of it featuring her vocals, you may ask yourself ” this was a political science major at UCLA? WTF?!” How can someone who wants to shape future policy be that clueless about current events at that time? How can they be that bigoted and culturally insensitive in this day and age?
How can one person be that much of a bimbo and magnify that offense further by insulting people with roots to a region suffering from a triple earthquake-tsunami-nuclear meltdown catastrophe at that time?
And then be that stupid to post it publicly? We live in the matrix now. That’s our media world. Everything we do (on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc.) is now recorded and broadcasted; is you haven’t realized that by now…Social Darwinism will eventually cut you down to size.
At least Wallace has her bikini modeling career to make some bucks, because it’s probably going to be hard for her to get a job in public policy. But then again, Michelle Bachmann, Christine O’Donnell and Sarah Palin have said some dumb things, and they made a career in politics.
But where is Alexandra Wallace today? I don’t know. Researching Alexandra Wallace yielded nothing.
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I actually get curious about Alexandria Wallace every once in a while too! My present interest in finding out whatever happened to her was sparked because I recently showed it to my roommate who is an international student and had never heard of it before. We both laughed (because it’s just so ridiculous) and of course we were both somewhat offended (I’m Korean-American and she’s from Japan; not that Asians are the only ones who found the video offensive). And she was understandably upset, more-so than I was, at the Tsunami part, for obvious reasons.
But, it’s sad that she ruined her life. Even if she doesn’t sound so smart, she must have shown some significant promise if she was accepted into UCLA. It’s especially surprising that she’s a poli-sci major; you would think she would have a little more awareness and a sense for political correctness (although when you put it in the context of Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin, it doesn’t seem so crazy after all). It doesn’t excuse her conduct, but I think it’s important to note that she was still somewhat young at that point. I can’t say I wish the BEST for her but I hope she sincerely learns why it was wrong and is able to get past it and live a fulfilling and productive life. Everyone makes mistakes and people have a natural instinct to generalize… it’s just that they usually don’t, in a definitive moment of stupidity, post it on the web for everyone to see.
Jessica, you make a lot of great points. No one should have to live with a scarlet letter their whole life.
Of course, we live in the fish bowl now, every thing we tweet, facebook, comment on etc. is public for everyone to see. We all need to take caution. Or at least better caution than Wallace did. Because you’re right, she is at least “book smart.”