‘Emilia Pérez’ Star Karla Sofía Gascón Spark’s outrage for posts about Islam

Oscar candidate Karla Sofía Gascón, The star of Emilia Pérez, is under fire because a crowd has been found in your personal X account.

The contributions on the website, which was previously known as Twitter X Thread from the writer and podcaster Sarah Hagi. On Thursday, January 30th, Hagi reappeared the screenshots of old contributions from Gascón’s personal X account, which contained a multitude of insensitive comments about Muslim people, the Arab community and Islam.

“Islam is wonderful, without machismo. Women are respected, and if they are respected, they stay with a small square hole on the face so that their eyes are visible, and their mouth, but only if it behaves. Although they dress for their own enjoyment in this way. How deeply disgusting disgusting for mankind, ”read a contribution to Gascón’s X account on September 3, 2020, translated by Spanish into English by Diversity. The article also contained a photo of a Muslim family in a restaurant, including a woman in a burqa.

Another contribution that was shared on Gascón’s side (but later deleted) and translated into English by Spanish diversity According to it: “I’m sorry, is it just my impression or is there more Muslims in Spain? Every time I pick up my daughter from school, there are more women with their hair and their skirts on my heels. Next year instead of English we will have to teach Arabic. “

Hagi’s thread contained screenshots of 12 articles that she allegedly found on Gascón’s side. Many of the contributions were apparently published between 2020 and 2021, with the earliest post in Hagis Thread bearing a time stamp 2016. In a separate thread that is now being deleted, Gascón’s account reports reportedly the murder of George Floyd 2020. “I really believed that very few people have ever taken care of George Floyd, a drug addict and a cough. Everything wrong, ”read the contribution, as translated from Spanish via Google Translate.

Gascón’s verified X account is still alive diversity And Hagi also seems to have been deleted.

Gascón is the first open trans actress to be nominated for an Oscar. It leads Emilia Pérez, Also Staring Zoe Saldaña And Selena Gomez, This received a total of an overall Oscar nominations – most of it for every film this season and most for a film that is not in the English language. The film was celebrated both at the award ceremony and since its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and was taken over by Netflix in a lively deal. Since then, the European Film Awards and the Prize for the Best Musical or Comedy have won a best film award at the Golden Globes of this month.

As soon as the film was premiered on Netflix, several trans critics and Glaad spoke against the film and criticized it as a regressive and simple portrait of the trans experience. (A musical number in particular inspired a complete ridicule on social media.) With the conversation with Vanity fair At the beginning of this month, Gascón pushed back: “When LGBTQ that has these labels, it does not deprive her stupidity, just how heterosexuality does not eliminate her stupidity. What bothers me is that the people who say such things just sit at home and do nothing. If you don’t like it, make your own film. Create the presentation you want to see for your community. “