Jameela Jamil slams female stars for celebrating ‘known bigot’ Karl Lagerfeld at Met Gala 2023

Actor Jameela Jamil has slammed celebrities who attended the 2023 Met Gala which honoured late fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. Taking to Instagram, Jamil noted that many of the attendees were outspoken feminists, despite Lagerfeld’s bigoted comments against fat women.
For the unversed, Lagerfeld infamously told the German fashion magazine Focus in 2009, ‘No one wants to see curvy women.’
Jameela Jamil wrote, ‘Last night Hollywood and fashion said the quiet part out loud when a lot of famous feminists chose to celebrate at the highest level a man who was so publicly cruel to women, to fat people, to immigrants and to sexual assault survivors. And all the women’s publications, and spectators online, chose to gleefully ignore it.’
She further said, ‘Nobody has perfect morals, least of all me, but Jesus Christ, we had a year to course-correct here and not award the highest honor possible to a known bigot. And everyone decided all of a sudden we can separate the art from the artist when convenient. Last night we relinquished our right to be taken at all seriously about anything important.’
Sharing the long note, the actor added in the comments, ‘This isn’t about cancel culture. It’s not even about Karl. It’s about showing how selective cancel culture is within liberal politics, in the most blatant way so far. It’s about showing why people don’t trust liberals. Because of slippery tactics and double standards like this. And it’s not just Hollywood here — the general public online participated and were entirely complicit in the erasure of the truth last night. They replaced their pitchforks with spoons last night, to lap that shit right up… If we carry on like this, don’t be shocked when we lose the next election.’
The 2023 Met Gala was held on May 1. Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny, Lizzo, Jenna Ortega, Pedro Pascal, Kim Kardashian, and more walked the red carpet.
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