Following Azealia Bank’s use of an anti-gay slur during a heated argument with Perez Hilton, activist group GLAAD reached out to Banks for a formal apology.
@azealiabanks Are you open to hearing from young #LGBT people & fans who have been hurt by slurs & comments like yours? glaad.org/blog/rapper-az…
— GLAAD (@glaad) January 6, 2013
Unfortunately, Azaelia refuses to see the problem and instead insists that derogatory words should be accepted in 2013 as simply being ‘expletives’.
Glaad and all these others need to give it a break… Picking and choosing when to be offended….. Pfffft, as fucking if.
— YUNG RAPUNXEL (@AZEALIABANKS) January 7, 2013
As if all “derogatory” words are not now in 2013, simply just expletives.
— YUNG RAPUNXEL (@AZEALIABANKS) January 7, 2013
GLAAD has released an official statement, saying:
As far as we’ve come in this society, seeing it used by an artist many young people may look up to is painful, but even more so for those young fans, many of whom GLAAD has heard from.
What do you think?
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