90 day fiancé’s Alina has been heavily criticized on social media recently
for the controversy involving her using a rаcial slur.
In this video we will take a look at the timeline of events
and the newly discovered posts that shed doubt as to the sincerity of Alina’s apology.
On Tuesday, January 11th Alina had posted a throwback photo to her Instagram
The photo was taken at a “gеnder bender” event at an American school that she attended for a year
during her exchange program.
While the picture itself was taken many years ago,
the caption was new and in that caption the Russian native used the rаcial slur,
though spelled differently, where she used “qq” instead of “gg”.
She promptly deleted the post, but the screenshot of it started to circulate online.
While some 90 day fiance fans commented that going forward,
they don’t want to hear anything from her ever again,
others expected some kind of a statement from "Before the 90 Days" cast member.
However, during the following days there was no response from Alina on social media
An Instagram account @mommysaysbadwordslive managed to reach out to Alina on social media for a comment on January 12th.
When the blogger tagged Alina on their post, the 90 day fiancé cast member wrote the following message:
“Wow, nice photo editing skills”, followed by three thumbs up emojis.
She continued, “idk who does this but this is beyond dumb”.
To that, the blogger responded, “I didn’t do it, I reposted it.”
Alina replied, “Reposting something like this is as bad”
The blogger than said that saying the word is bad and the post was showing that she said that.
Alina proceeded to write an explanation:
“Plus, I really don’t get why this way was chosen. Like I’m Russian, I’m not even from the U.S., I didn’t grow up there.
We don’t even speak English here.” She added that she had never said the word.
Then the blogger proceeded to ask Alina to repost the “real” post.
Alina said that she posted the picture only to her stories and not as a post,
she added that the picture has been up for years on her social media
and she reposted it to her stories to reminisce about studying in the U.S.
She insisted the picture was photoshopped and said she "might address it later".
She also reiterated that she’s Russian and doesn’t understand “why this topic was chosen”.
Alina then said, “I’m a minority too, so I’d never disrespect other minority.”
“Doesn’t make sense,” Alina added
The blogger then said that Alina later deleted all the messages she sent to her.
On January 14th, 3 days after the controversiаl post, Alina has posted an apology to her Instagram Stories.
The statement read:
"I'm sure some of you have seen the screenshot of one of my past posts."
I sincerely want to apologize to those whose feelings have been hurt.
I never intended to offend anyone.
I am and always will be against any form of discriminаtion.
My English is okay, but I am Russian and there's still a lot of nuances that you learn over time.
I didn't know the impact of the word that I used in that post all those years ago.
I saw a lot of people on social media using it, so I thought it was like "bro" or "fella", but I was wrong.
Again, my deepest apologies to those who were hurt by my words.
90 day fiancé cast member seemed to imply that the controversial post was posted years ago.
However, the fans who grabbed the screenshots before the post was deleted
clаim that she did repost it to her page on January 11th.
When it comes to the fans' response on Alina's apology, the viewers’ opinions were divided.
The results of the poll I conducted on my Instagram indicate
that 47% believed Alina’s apology was sincere, while 53% did not.
The arguments some of the viewers used in Alina’s defense:
• English is not Alina’s first language
• She must have not known the meaning of the word before
• The influence of the American rap culture across the globe
And the fact, that she had made an apology
The arguments that were used by the viewers who didn’t think Alina’s apology was sincere:
• Alina lived in the U.S. for a year
• She is a public figure and should have been mindful of what she posts
• It took her 3 days to post an apology
• Her apology seemed to be backhanded
• She made sure to spell the word with "QQs" indicating she knew it was wrong to use it
The same date Alina removed 63 posts from her Instagram.
She has also removed all of her posts on Reddit,
deleted her Twitter account,
and removed all the posts on Facebook.
On the 15th of January, Alina’s friend Elijah whom we saw on 90 day fiance posted to social media in defense of his friend.
In his response he seemed to have said that the post was posing 8 years ago, and she had made a mistake.
Quote:
[I had known her for almost 8 years]
Quote
"I KNOW that this comment WAS NOT intentional"
and KNOWING and being basically in Russian environment you don't realise some things from the start (especially about [other] cultures),
[...] it's been [about 8 or 9 maybe] years since then
so she's completely aware of the huge mistake she made and sincerely [regrets] it.
Elijah also added that “Alina has been treated as a minority all her life”
and she has been receiving hаteful messages from the fan base.
Caleb also answered a question about Alina’s post.
In his Instagram story he responded:
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Meanwhile, a Reddit User has posted another prоblematic post from Alina.
Back 4 years ago she modeled in Dubai wearing what seems to be a traditional attire.
In the caption Alina wrote:
“Got married today. Became a 134th wife”.
While some Internet Users said it seemed like a joke,
others said it was tone deaf and aimed as a dig towards Muslіms,
as in Islаm men can marry four wives, though it is very rarely practiced nowadays.
Another post was shared by an Instagram account @frаudcast.
In the post Alina appears to have said, that she has a crush on Hugh Grant,
and she would love to date a guy like him,
though "the real Hugh Grant is too old" for her
and she doesn’t want to date his children either
Quote “and his wife is Asian, so all the kids would be kinda Asian”.
On January 16th another old screenshot of Alina’s was found
that ultimately proves she definitely knew the "N" wоrd was offеnsive
In 2014 she shared a screenshot of a party invitation she received on her social media.
What followed was a post filled with the multiple mentions of the word.
"Okay, this is very funny and weird and can happen only in Russia, but i got invited on russian facebook to [redаcted]
"LOL"
"the whole name sounds like [redаcted]"
Then Alina wrote:
"HAHAHHAHAAH im sorry everyone for writing these words but this is one of the funniest things i've seen and i am SO going!!"
In an interview from 2018 Alina was asked what are the proper and offеnsive terms for little people in English.
She responded “little person” or “dwarf” is accepted, but there is an derоgatory word as well,
Alina compared that calling a little person an "M" word is as offеnsive as calling an African American person an "N”.
Despite Alina being called out for her prоblematic posts and not being honest in her apology,
it hasn’t affected her following on Instagram.
She still gains following and now she has the most followers out of all new 90 day fiancé cast members.
Interestingly, on 16th of January Elijah had edited his post and rewrote his stance on the situation.
This time, he said,
“I know and own that my friend [scrеwed] up
For all those years that we’re friends I never see anything like that in her real life and I was really surprised by that.
I stand AGAINST all forms of discriminаtion and want to be the first to call some ВS.
I feel really sorry for anybody who’s been hurt by that even tho it’s not my fault.
It’s up to Alina to own that and do the most to learn, reflect, recover and repair.”
What do you think about Alina’s apology?
Please let me know in the comments.
As always, thank you so much for watching!