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I haven't watched Reinventing Anna but I'm so interested in your thoughts on the scammers here, as well as your comment about race. I think it's absolutely true that white women and men are going to get away with scamming so much more, especially in the context of the kind of wealth that Anna Delvey was playing into. I've been thinking a lot in this current moment about Linda Taylor, the mixed race woman whose story gave rise to the really dangerous "welfare queen" stereotype that Reagan got obsessed with and used really often. I reviewed this book called THE QUEEN that was about her life, it was really fascinating and upsetting. Because unlike someone like Delvey or Holmes her scams were often (not always, but often) coming from what seems like a need to assert and find power in a world that had literally tried to make her powerless. She really was a victim of so many systems. Anyway, thank you for this post!

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