" Last night , we foreswear our right to be taken at all badly about anything important . "
Jameela Jamilis doubling down onher thoughts about the Met Gala— and what she had to say makes a lot of sense.
It all started last year when it was announced that the event would pay tribute to the lateKarl Lagerfeld, despite his controversial past.
The creative director of labels like Chanel and Fendi has been the subject of criticism throughout his career, including his use ofanti-fat language,his defenseof colleagues who were accused of sexual assault, and putting a model inboth blackface and yellowface.
Although many people were in agreement with Jameela’s sentiments, no change was made, and the gala continued with the scheduled theme this past Monday.
And shortly after hundreds of celebrities walked the carpet at the event, Jameelaspoke out once again— noting the hypocritical nature of many of the attendees.
“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,” shewrote. “And all the women’s publications, and spectators online, chose to gleefully ignore it.”
She continued, “Suddenly, your appetite to find someone’s tweets from when they were 12, has gone. 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.”
Jameela went on to call out everyone who “decided all of a sudden we can separate the art from the artist when convenient” for them.
“It’s one rule for us, and another rule for everybody else. Last night, we relinquished our right to be taken at all seriously about anything important,” she concluded.
In the caption, Jameela added that her post wasn’t about cancel culture or Karl — it was about the selectiveness of cancel culture.
“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,” Jameela wrote. “Because of slippery tactics and double standards like this.”
She continued, “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.”
Jameela concluded her statements by saying that if people “carry on like this,” they shouldn’t be “shocked when we lose the next election.”
You can read all that Jameela had to sayhere.
