“He was so publicly cruel to women!” Jameela Jamil satirizes the Met Gala’s Karl Lagerfeld theme as she calls out ‘celebrity feminists’ who ‘chose to celebrate it’
Jameela Jamil has blasted the Met Gala’s Karl Lagerfeld theme, claiming the event double standards in honoring a “known bigot.”
The Good Place actress, 37, denounced the “selective cancellation culture” displayed by organizers and attendees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute’s annual benefit, which took place Monday.
This year, the Met Gala honored the Chanel designer who passed away in 2019 with the theme Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty.
Jameela denounced the fact that people had chosen to “gleefully ignore” some of the late designer’s “cruel” opinions, while still calling for others to be canceled with whom they disagreed.
Jameela wrote on Instagram, “Last night Hollywood and fashion said the quiet part out loud as many celebrity feminists chose to celebrate at the highest level a man so publicly cruel to women, fat people, immigrants, and to sexual assault survivors. violence.
Outspoken: Jameela Jamil blasted the Met Gala’s Karl Lagerfeld theme by claiming the events are using double standards in honor of a ‘known bigot’
And all women’s publications and spectators online chose to gleefully ignore it.
“No one has perfect morals, least of all me, but Jesus Christ, we had a year to correct course here and not give the highest possible credit to a known bigot… and everyone suddenly decided that we had lost the art can separate from the artist when *convenient*.
“And it’s one rule for us and another rule for everyone else. Last night we waived our right to be taken seriously at all about something important.’
Jameela used the caption of her post to highlight “slippery tactics and double standards” and warned people to think about her points before the next presidential election.
She wrote, “This is not about canceling culture. It’s not even about Karl. It’s about showing how selective cancel culture is within liberal politics, in the most blatant way yet.
“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 joined in and was completely complicit in obliterating the truth last night.
“Last night they replaced their pitchforks with spoons to eat that up… If we keep going like this, don’t be alarmed if we lose the next election.”
Cheeky: In a scathing Instagram post, the Good Place actress denounced the “selective cancellation culture” displayed by organizers and attendees honoring the late Chanel designer
Furious: Jameela denounced the fact that people had chosen to ‘gleefully ignore’ some of the late designer’s ‘cruel’ opinions
RIP: Karl’s contribution to fashion was honored with the theme of the Met Gala on Monday, after his death in 2019
This isn’t the first time Jameela has criticized the decision to honor Karl, who died in February 2019, at the Met Gala.
After the theme was announced, she shared a series of screenshots that highlighted the designer’s controversial previous comments.
She captioned her post, “Why is THIS we’re celebrating when there are so many AMAZING designers out there who aren’t bigoted white men?” What happened to everyone’s principles and ‘advocacy’.
“You cannot stand up for justice in these areas and then attend the celebration of someone who enjoyed his own public disdain for marginalized people.
‘Sorry but no. This isn’t the ’90s. We didn’t fight all this shit to throw it all away because some white guy made fancy clothes for people’s skinny favorites… come on now.’