Karla Sofía Gascón is very sorry people found her bad tweets

It's like the old proverb says: When you point a finger at someone else, you've also got three pointing back at you—and also, the internet's probably going to trawl the shit out of your social media timelines to find the worst things you've ever publicly said.

Hence a very quick apology issued by Emilia Perez star and Oscar nominee Karla Sofía Gascón tonight, after being confronted with social media posts she made back in 2020 about the murder of George Floyd, whose death was one of the inciting incidents for the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Per THR, which was working with a Google Translate take on Gascón's Spanish-language posts, Gascón wrote the following message while unrest was breaking out in America:

Let me get this straight, a guy tries to pass off a counterfeit bill after consuming methamphetamine, an idiot policeman arrives and goes too far in arresting him, killing him, ruining the lives of his family and his colleagues, and turning the guy with the bill into a martyr hero. I truly believe that very few people ever cared about George Floyd, a drug addict and a hustler, but his death has served to highlight once again that there are those who still consider Black people to be monkeys without rights and those who consider the police to be murderers. All wrong.

Other tweets of Gascón's that have been resurfaced in the last day—i.e., the 24 hours or so after she kicked an Academy hornet's nest by suggesting that employees of one of her rivals for the Best Actress statue at this year's awards, Fernanda Torres, were shit-talking her online—have included criticisms of Muslim culture and immigrants in Spain ("Maybe next year instead of English we’ll have to teach Arabic") and accusations that 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."

Gascón is, needless to say, very sorry for all those things she for-sure said, and then somehow didn't delete when she was nominated for an Oscar, and then especially after coming to believe there was some sort of online campaign being waged against her. In a statement today, Gascón, who's trans, wrote that, "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.”