Carla Sofia Gascon removes X after offensive Tweets Reerge

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Emilia Perez star Karl Sofia Gascon deleted her X/Twitter account at the request of her family, she said in the second statement made Hollywood reporter on January 31. In it, she explains the apology she made a day before the racist, xenophobic and Islamophobic posts she made today. “I am sorry, but I can no longer allow this campaign of hatred and misinformation not to influence my family or me,” she writes, saying that she got the threat of death.

In her original statement shared with the stamp, Gascon wrote: “I want to recognize a conversation around my past publications on social networks that caused harm. As someone in a marginalized community, I know this suffering too well, and I am very sorry for those whom I have caused pain.

Her last statement occupies a more defensive tone, deciding its offensive tweets. She writes, initially in Spanish and translated Arrogant in English: “I have always used my social media as a diary, reflections or notes to create stories or characters later, not as something that would be carefully checked to the last of my last 140 characters, since sometimes I, I, I, I, I do not even realize that wrote something negative. ” She continues: “I defended each of the minorities in this world and supported the freedom of religion,” a claim that contradicts several messages like, such as, for example one in 2020 In which she wrote (first in Spanish) “until we prohibit religions that oppose European values ​​and violate human rights such as Islam, under the protection of freedom of worship, we will not end the great problem we face.”

January 30 January 30, the history of Gascon’s publication was put to the forefront of the public about the public Sarah Hagi, who reworked tweets for screenshots and wrote“It’s all from a movie star that agitation under its progressive values, you really have to laugh.” In one TweetGascon calls the whole religion of Islam as “a fire for humanity, which urgently needs to be cured.” In others, she fixes how Muslim women dress.

Other Tweets from Gascon include her criticism of Oscar and George Floyd’s protests in 2021. “More and more #oscars are like a ceremony for independent and protest films, I didn’t know if I watched the African-Korean festival, demonstration of black life or 8m,” Gason wrote in one tweet as marked Variety. “In addition, the ugly, ugly gala.” On George Floyd, Gascon wrote in the topic: “I really think that very few people have taken care of George Floyd, a drug addict, but his death again demonstrated that there are people who still consider black people to be monkeys without rights and rights and It is believed that police are killers.

In his latest statement, Gascon attributes the above tweets with “ignorance or a pure mistake”, apologizing to everyone who is offended. “I am a person who made, makes and make the mistakes I will learn from. I’m not perfect. Take my words from context or manipulate them to hurt me is what I don’t answer for. “

Gascon says “can’t respond to every thing you let go to try to flood me. But if you want, you can continue to attack me as if I was responsible for hunger and war in the world. I apologize again , if I have offended someone in my own words in my life.

“I am just Karla Sofia Gascon, an actress who reached where very little because of her efforts and work, not stealing or harming anyone in this world, just trying to make them let me live in peace, love and respect, something that It seems to be worried about many people in this world, ”she continues.

Gascon writes that she hopes to be able to “give a broader explanation” at some point, and suggests that “something is very dark” behind the backlash. She writes in quotes, “The more you try to flood me, the more it will make me. The more victory, ” and closes with a Buddhist phrase, “NAM MYOHO RENGE KYO” So, “the dedication of the mystical law of Lotus Sutra.” Gason practices Buddhism.

This publication has been updated during a new statement.