Karla Sofía Gascón, the first openly trans actor to be nominated for an Oscar, apologized and ditched X after multiple controversial tweets were resurfaced.
Gascón, who is currently a contender for the Academy Award for “Best Actress” after starring in the movie “Emilia Pérez,” faced backlash for old social media posts about Islam and George Floyd.
In one 2020 post that was reportedly viewed and translated from Spanish by Variety magazine, Gascón shared a photo of a Muslim family in a restaurant, and wrote, “Islam is marvelous, without any machismo. Women are respected, and when they are so respected they are left with a little squared hole on their faces for their eyes to be visible and their mouths, but only if she behaves. Although they dress this way for their own enjoyment. How DEEPLY DISGUSTING OF HUMANITY.”
This was not the only post from the performer criticizing Islam, however, as Gascón also proposed in 2020, “Until we ban religions that go against European values and violate human rights, such as Islam, under the protection of freedom of worship, we will not end part of the huge problem we face.”
The performer slammed other religions by name, writing in a 2021 post, “I am so sick of so much of this sh–, of islam, of christianity, of catholicism and of all the f—ing beliefs of morons that violate human rights.”
In a post from 2020, shortly after the death of George Floyd, the performer wrote, “I really think that very few people ever cared about George Floyd, a drug addict swindler, but his death has served to once again demonstrate that there are people who still consider black people to be monkeys Without rights and consider policemen to be assassins. They’re all wrong.”
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