Lena Dunham wears many hats—she's a writer, a director, an actor. She's also been called a poster child for white privilege.In many ways that is true—there are plenty of examples that reflect Dunham's privilege as a white millennial woman, whether that be in how she satirized herself and other white New York twentysomethings like her in the HBO series Girls, or in the fact that the show, which was set in Bushwick, hardly ever featured people of color (a creative decision Dunham tried to correct by casting Donald Glover to appear in a couple of episodes as a Black Republican, though the plan ultimately backfired).
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