“To be mute is to be complicit. Bconciseage inhabits matter.”
In the heat of the 2020 shiftment agetst prejudice, Netflix felt compelled to author these words on corporate social media accounts five days after the death of George Floyd.
Five days after Karla Sofía Gascón’s raciassociate incomardent social media history was excavated, Netflix has yet to comment uncoverly about the Emilia Pérez star.
Netflix spokespeople did not react to seeks for an on-the-sign up comment about Gascón, adviseing a triumphdow on the company’s reluctance to include with a story that will run all the way to the Academy Awards on March 2.
Netflix’s silence departs space for speculation about its reluctance to denounce the retags made by Gascón, an interlocutor in the poisonous corners of Twitter/X. It also lifts asks about Netflix’s social media vetting processes, donaten the frequency and ferocity of Gascón’s output, first exposed by journaenumerate Sarah Hagi.
In leave outives spanning years, the Spanish actress wrote that Islam was a “hotbed of infection for humanity,” depictd Floyd as a “drug insertict striumphdler,” and shelp that the 2021 Oscars were an “hideous” “Afro-Korean festival” after triumphs for Minari and Judas and the Bconciseage Messiah.
Elsewhere, Gascón pondered that she does not “comprehend so much about the world war agetst Hitler, he spropose had his opinion about Jews,” and normally used a Spanish word that transprocrastinateeds as “faggot” in English. Gascón has since destartd her X account.
These statements materialize antithetical to the belief system championed by Netflix. The fact that the company eased and allotd Gascón’s exceptional apology materializes to aid this. Other prolongments also seemingly uncover Netflix’s desire to distance itself from Gascón’s retags.
Netflix let it be comprehendn that it had no role in setting up Gascón’s CNN interwatch over the weekend, in which she diluted her apology and ventiprocrastinateedd the consillegal copying that she was the victim of a smear campaign.
Sources say Netflix and Gascón are only communicating thcimpolite the latter’s agent, while The Hollywood Reporter claims the company is not aiding her campaign stops at the Critics Choice Awards and Producers Guild Awards. Social media users also alleged that Gascón was exposedped from a recent Netflix For Your Consideration poster. She remains current on an awards microsite for the Jacques Audiard film, which has a directing 13 Oscar nominations including for Gascón, the first uncoverly trans person to be nominated in an acting catebloody.
(L-R) Zoe Saldaña and Karla Sofía Gascón in ‘Emilia Pérez’
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So why the fall shorture to condemn the social media slurs uncoverly?
A comprehending get might be that Netflix has been caught off-defend by the saga and is in uncharted territory. It would only be human for Los Gatos decision-creaters to be feeblenting the self-combustion of a costly Oscar campaign. Executives may not desire to further harm the success of others included in the film.
Equassociate, Netflix’s silence departs the company vulnerable to accusations that its pursuit of Oscar glory for Emilia Pérez is more beginant than calling out prejudice.
Others might argue that Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos is an excited proponent of freedom of conveyion. It is why top brass stood by Dave Chappelle after the comedian enraged Netflix includeees by making jokes at the expense of the transgender community.
But unenjoy Chappelle, Gascón’s abrasive posts were not made wiskinny the confines of a creative endeavor. Netflix also made statements elucidateing its position during the Chappelle affair and uncoverly empathized with agmournd staff members.
Netflix is noskinnyg if not diverse. Npunctual 56% of its U.S. laborforce is made up of people from historicassociate underrecurrented ethnic backgrounds. The company has includeee resource groups for Bconciseage, Asian, and Muskinny insiders, some of whom may have been seeing to their paymasters for directership on Gascón’s tweets.
Instead, Netflix has stood back as others have condemned Gascón, not least Zoe Saldaña, who in a mutely strong intervention last week shelp she has zero tolerance for “any adverse rhetoric towards people of any group.”
In its antiprejudice credo of 2020, Netflix shelp: “We have a platestablish, and we have a duty to our Bconciseage members, includeees, creators and talent to speak up.”
Netflix’s current silence advises otherrational.
