Highest Honour To A Known Bigot: Jameela Jamil Calls Out The Met Gala For Celebrating Karl Lagerfeld

The Met Gala this year had a theme honouring the late designer Karl Lagerfeld.

Jamil has previously voiced her displeasure with the Met Gala's theme for this year.

New Delhi: The Met Gala this year had a theme honouring the late designer Karl Lagerfeld, and actress Jameela Jamil has taken issue with it. She expressed her disapproval of the "selective cancel culture" that many participants showed by attending the event in a strong Instagram post. 

"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," Jamil wrote.

"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 honour possible to a known bigot," she added. 

In her post, Jamil gave an explanation of why she was expressing her perspective on social media and why it was crucial to consider this. 

"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," she wrote.

"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 actor added. 

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— Jasmine Dotiwala (@jasminedotiwala) May 2, 2023

Jamil has previously voiced her displeasure with the Met Gala's theme for this year. In October 2022, Jamil posted several screenshots of articles that showed examples of Lagerfeld's distasteful behaviour.