Bond wrote a piece for a website called Hyperallergic that pushed back against the idea that white must have been the ideal skin color in the classical era, since all surviving marble statues from the era are colored white. Instead, Bond asserted that the statues had originally been painted with a variety of different skin colors, but that such paint had faded over time. She argued that this misperception had contributed to contemporary white supremacy, because it led those who viewed the statues to believe that white skin was regarded as the ideal skin color at the time of the statues’ creation. Bond was criticized by right-leaning media outlets and was subsequently subjected to online harassment, some of which was anti-Semitic (Bond is of Jewish heritage), according to Inside Higher Ed. Commenters also called for her termination from the university.