Lacey Hull
Role at the time: Texas state representative, in a post on X
Statement summary
Texas state Rep. Lacey Hull asked on X that the post be deleted, said it broke her heart, and said the college students pictured cheering on their football team were Texans.
“Please delete this. This post breaks my heart. I see college kids cheering on their football team. I see Texans”
Why we used this label
The case asks whether French's post about the UT fans was racist, so the reference point is the post that presented the pictured fans as a problem. Hull asked French to delete it, said it broke her heart, and described the pictured students as Texans. That criticizes the post itself and rejects its reading of the image, so we labeled it Condemned. The closest competing label is Challenged the characterization, which loses because she also asks for the post to be removed and says it hurt her, which is direct criticism.