--- title: Sophie Turner Condemns Racist Sansa Stark Meme description: Sophie Turner has spoken out against a racist meme featuring her Game of Thrones character Sansa Stark. canonical: https://time.com/5514470/sophie-turner-racist-meme/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-01-28T15:35:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:57:08.378Z og:title: Sophie Turner Condemns Racist Sansa Stark Meme og:description: The Lady of Winterfell does not mince words og:url: https://time.com/5514470/sophie-turner-racist-meme/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf035cf967760b18b/6988dad84ee2624fce30eaf2/game-of-thrones-the-dragon-and-the-wolf-sansa-stark-02.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3150 og:image:height: 1772 og:image:alt: game-of-thrones-the-dragon-and-the-wolf-sansa-stark-02 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sophie Turner Condemns Racist Sansa Stark Meme twitter:description: The Lady of Winterfell does not mince words twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf035cf967760b18b/6988dad84ee2624fce30eaf2/game-of-thrones-the-dragon-and-the-wolf-sansa-stark-02.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Sophie Turner Condemns Racist Sansa Stark Meme Because the Lady of Winterfell Does Not Mince Words > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 28, 2019 3:35 PM UTC  HBO  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 28, 2019 3:35 PM UTC [Sophie Turner](http://time.com/5507130/sansa-stark-hair-secrets/) has spoken out against a racist meme featuring her [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/4913247/game-of-thrones-season-8-premiere-date/)character [Sansa Stark](http://time.com/5501931/game-of-thrones-teaser-bran-stark/). The 22-year-old actor took to Twitter on Saturday to denounce a now unavailable tweet advocating for “Purity In Race and Culture” with a photo of Sansa. “White people are the product of 50,000 years of evolution. Do not destroy our genetic legacy by race mixing,” [the meme read](https://www.thewrap.com/sophie-turner-condemns-game-of-thrones-meme-promotes-racism/). “Do it right! Date and marry white!” Turner did not mince words in her response to the image. “Ew,” she wrote. “Please don’t use me to promote racism.” It would appear, she pays attention to memes of the show. In November, Turner also voiced her reaction to [President Donald Trump’s use of a _Game of Thrones_ meme](http://time.com/5443319/trump-game-of-thrones-meme/) to promote his administration’s announcement that it would reimpose all U.S. sanctions on Iran that had been lifted via the 2015 nuclear deal. “Ew,” she wrote. > [](https://twitter.com/SophieT/status/1089251930432516096) > [](https://twitter.com/SophieT/status/1058415804641767424) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5514470/sophie-turner-racist-meme/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5514470/sophie-turner-racist-meme/"},"headline":"Sophie Turner Condemns Racist Sansa Stark Meme Because the Lady of Winterfell Does Not Mince Words","datePublished":"2019-01-28T15:35:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:57:08.378Z","description":"“Please don’t use me to promote racism”","url":"https://time.com/5514470/sophie-turner-racist-meme/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","game of thrones","celebrities","TV","Sophie Turner"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf035cf967760b18b/6988dad84ee2624fce30eaf2/game-of-thrones-the-dragon-and-the-wolf-sansa-stark-02.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf035cf967760b18b/6988dad84ee2624fce30eaf2/game-of-thrones-the-dragon-and-the-wolf-sansa-stark-02.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"game-of-thrones-the-dragon-and-the-wolf-sansa-stark-02","caption":"","creditText":"HBO","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5514470/sophie-turner-racist-meme/","name":"Sophie Turner Condemns Racist Sansa Stark Meme Because the Lady of Winterfell Does Not Mince Words"}}]}] ```