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Piper is intentionally completely awful, mostly because she is an awful person in real life too.

Jenji Kohan used her character as something of a Trojan horse, where she was the way she would be able to make a show about minority women in prison. Really, Piper's not even an important character, she's just there for the story to progress and be able to tell the other inmates stories.