Mumbai: Priyanka Chopra, who's currently being watched across the globe in her hit TV show, 'Quantico,' has found herself stuck in a very unpleasant soup.
The actress recently posed for the cover of a magazine in a quoted T-shirt, that struck out the words 'Refugee,' 'Immigrant,' and 'Outsider' leaving the word 'Traveller' untampered, essentially implying that the the former three words don't describe a person, but the word 'traveller' would in similar veins.
Twitter users instantly spotted the negligently insensitive use of the word 'Refugees,' and heavily harangued her.
Check some of the tweets here:
wkwasikhan @wkwasikhanSince when did #PriyankaChopra Chopra, one of the world's highest paid TV actors, relate to a #refugee? @UNICEF
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Sharanya Manivannan @ranyamanivannan
Appalling, dehumanising, privilege-strutting, racist message on Priyanka Chopra's tee on this mag cover. @LakshmiGandhi have you seen this?
2:32 PM - 8 Oct 2016 Fort Tondiarpet, India, India
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Madeha Rai Zargar @madeharai@priyankachopra There is a difference between luxury & compulsion.u hv just defined a new low-a new shallow #notcool#PeeCee #heartless
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Cond Nast Traveller "@CNTIndiaBold and fearless, @priyankachopra makes a statement on our 6th anniversary issue cover. #PCinCNT #WhyWeTravelpic.twitter.com/phtSE1ihVw
@1DerfulJelieber@cntindia being a refugee is NOT a choice, it's a matter of survival. i was already disappointed for her comments abt feminism, now this -.-
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Anum R. Chagani @Anumero_1Oh, I'm sorry, I wasn't aware that being a refugee is a matter of choice...What were you thinking?! @cntindia @priyankachopra
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Cond Nast Traveller "@CNTIndiaBold and fearless, @priyankachopra makes a statement on our 6th anniversary issue cover. #PCinCNT #WhyWeTravelpic.twitter.com/phtSE1ihVw
savita_pawnday @savita_pawnday@cntindia @priyankachopra offensive t-shirt. With 65 million ppl displaced, highest no. since WWII, to pretend as if it's a choice.#nonPC
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At a time when the talented actress has unprecedentedly peaked, this is one controversy she'd definitely not have wanted to be embroiled in.
It remains to be seen how PeeCee would react to the very sensitive issue.
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