‘Bachelor’ Contestants Recount Racist Social Media Messages: ‘This Has to Stop’

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‘Bachelor’ Contestants Recount Racist Social Media Messages: ‘This Has to Stop’
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SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “The Bachelor: Women Tell All” from Season 24. When the women of Peter Weber’s season of “The Bachelor” gathered…

” gathered in a soundstage in Los Angeles to recount their time on the ABC dating competition program, it wasn’t just details of what happened inside the mansion that they discussed. Host Chris Harrison brought former Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay to also bring to the forefront of the conversation the unspoken consequence of being on the show: online harassment.

“I felt so strongly about this and having this moment at the end to talk about those things because I dealt with that directly.

“It’s extremely rude because they want to hurt you and they know that’s the only way that they can hurt you,” she said, “and it’s just disgusting that people think that that’s OK to say.”, another woman of color, also shared her experience, specifically noting that she has received a lot of messages with “name-calling” and “a lot of things about my hair, a lot of things about my skin tone, that I’m ugly — just anything.

“As much as I love social media, it’s a passage way for people to get more of their opinions out there and a lot of people’s opinions are really nasty,” she said.

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