To be silent is to be complicit.
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These statements appear antithetical to the belief system championed by Netflix.
Karla Sofía Gascón in her CNN interviewCNN
The fact that the company facilitated and distributed Gascons original apology appears to support this.
Other developments also seemingly reveal Netflixs desire to distance itself from Gascons remarks.
Social media users also alleged thatGascon was stripped from a recent Netflix For Your Consideration poster.
(L-R) Zoe Saldaña and Karla Sofía Gascón in ‘Emilia Pérez’Netflix
So why the failure to condemn the social media slurs publicly?
A sympathetic take might be that Netflix has been caught off-guard by the saga and is in uncharted territory.
It would only be human for Los Gatos decision-makers to be lamenting the self-combustion of a costly Oscar campaign.
Executives may not wish to further jeopardize the success of others involved in the film.
Others might argue that Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos is an enthusiastic proponent of freedom of expression.
But unlike Chappelle, Gascons abrasive posts were not made within the confines of a creative endeavor.
Netflix also made statements clarifying its position during the Chappelle scandal and publicly empathized with aggrieved staff members.
Netflix is nothing if not diverse.
Nearly 56% of its U.S. workforce is made up of people from historically underrepresented ethnic backgrounds.
Netflixs current silence suggests otherwise.
