Amanda Seyfried is providing a bit of context for her viral statement about Charlie Kirk.
If you didn’t see, a few days ago, the 39-year-old actress posted a comment on an Instagram post about Kirk‘s death. If you don’t know, he was shot and killed while speaking on a Utah college campus last week.
The post, from So Informed’s Instagram, highlighted a few of Kirk‘s controversial statements over the years, including calling Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson “a diversity hire” and saying the Transgender Day of Visibility should be canceled, among other comments.
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In a comment on the post, Amanda wrote, “He was hateful.”
Now, she’s issuing a further statement after she received backlash underneath that comment.
Amanda posted a statement on Wednesday (September 17) that read, “We’re forgetting the nuance of humanity. I can get angry about misogyny and racist rhetoric and ALSO very much agree that Charlie Kirk‘s murder was absolutely disturbing and deplorable in every way imaginable. No one should have to experience this level of violence. This country is grieving too many senseless and violent death and shootings. Can we agree on that at least?”
She captioned that statement with, “I don’t want to add fuel to a fire. I just want to be able to give clarity to something so irresponsibly (but understandably) taken out of context. Spirited discourse- isn’t that what we should be having?”
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Source: justjared.com