The Florida white woman who went viral this week for beating another white woman’s ass in an apartment lobby is being called a hero after details of the beatdown’s origin were revealed.

Before the start of the video, which made the social media rounds on Wednesday (Aug. 24), the woman in the blue dress apparently said something racist about Haitians to Colleen Dagg, who was seated at the time. As the video shows, ol’ Blue Dress got in Dagg’s face in a taunting manner and shoved her.

You saw what came next.

Dagg took to social media to explain why she had to throw down.

“Fighting racism is dependent on using my white privilege for the right reasons,” she said in a note that she tweeted on Thursday.

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