‘Emilia Pérez’ star Karla Sofía Gascón’s posts about Muslims, George Floyd, Oscars diversity and more go viral

“Emilia Pérez” star Karla Sofía Gascón’s X posts about Muslims, George Floyd, Oscars diversity and more are going viral.

“it’s so insane that karla sofía gascón still has these tweets up. straight up have never seen tweets this racist from someone actively campaigning to win an ACADEMY AWARD. there are more than a dozen…” journalist Sarah Hagi wrote via X on Thursday alongside numerous screenshots.

“this is all from the star of a movie that is campaigning on its progressive values, you really gotta laugh. stuff like this doesn’t get flagged because you can say whatever you want about muslims, it’s never considered racist. again, this isn’t even all of them,” Hagi continued while uploading more messages.

“i’m not exaggerating when i say there [are] so many tweets. spanning years!! it’s really something else.”

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The dozen screenshots Hagi shared included posts from Gascón — who, earlier this month, became the first openly transgender person to be nominated for an Oscar — spanning from May 2016 to April 2023.

In the posts, which were translated to English, the Spanish actress, 52, stated that “Islam is becoming a hotbed of infection for humanity that urgently needs to be cured” and described Muslims as “a DEEP DISGUSTING HUMANITY.”

She went on, “I’m Sorry, Is it just my impression or is there more muslims in Spain? Every time I go to pick up my daughter from school there are more women with their hair covered and their skirts down to their heels. Next year instead of English we’ll have to teach Arabic.”

Gascón argued, according to Variety, that the religion “fails to comply with international rights” and “must be banned as long as it does not comply with DDHH,” an abbreviation for human rights in Spanish law.

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She penned in another upload, “I am so sick of so much of this s–t, of islam, of christianity, of catholicism and of all the f–king beliefs of morons that violate human rights.”

Amid the Black Lives Matter movement that ignited after Floyd — an unarmed black man — was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis in broad daylight, the actress posted, “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.”

In a follow-up post, she continued, “Too many things to reflect on regarding the behavior of our species every time an event occurs. Perhaps it is no longer a question of racism, but of social classes that feel threatened by each other. Maybe that’s the only real difference.”

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At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Gascón uploaded a message that read, “So many scientists in the world making bombs, so many scholars constructing objects for space, so many medicinal factories and there’s no one who can get in line with this Chinese s–t. 🤷🏻‍♀️ In the end, it was a tremendous show for a new variant of the flu, avian or coronavirus.”

She added, “The Chinese vaccine, apart from the mandatory chip, comes with two spring rolls, a cat that moves its hand, 2 plastic flowers, a pop-up lantern, 3 telephone lines and one euro for your first controlled purchase.”

And following the 2021 Academy Awards, during which “Nomadland” won best picture, Gascón shared, “More and more the #Oscars are looking like a ceremony for independent and protest films, I didn’t know if I was watching an Afro-Korean festival, a Black Lives Matter demonstration or the 8M. Apart from that, an ugly, ugly gala.”

In response to the outrage, she told Page Six in a statement via her rep, “I want to acknowledge the conversation around my past social media posts that have caused hurt. As someone in a marginalized community, I know this suffering all too well and I am deeply sorry to those I have caused pain. All my life I have fought for a better world. I believe light will always triumph over darkness.”