“To be silent is to be complicit. Black lives matter.”
In the heat of the 2020 movement against racism, Netflix felt compelled to write these words on corporate social media accounts five days after the death of George Floyd.
Five days after Karla Sofía Gascón’s racially insensitive social media history was excavated, Netflix has yet to comment publicly about its Emilia Pérez star.
Netflix spokespeople did not respond to requests for an on-the-record comment about Gascón, offering a window on the company’s reluctance to engage with a story that will run all the way to the Academy Awards on March 2.
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Netflix’s silence leaves space for speculation about its reluctance to denounce the remarks made by Gascón, an interlocutor in the toxic corners of Twitter/X. It also raises questions about Netflix’s social media vetting processes, given
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