Simu Liu swears he’s “NOT” homophobic after old Reddit threads come back to haunt him again… again
Shang Chi and Barbie star is preaching “love and acceptance always” on his Instagram… just in time for the release of his debut single.Perhaps we should rewind here.Back in 2021, the internet connected Liu to a slew of questionably homophobic and misogynistic Reddit comments posted by a since-deleted account called “NippedInTheBud.” Though the posts, made between 2013 and 2019, had been scrubbed, an online archiving tool was able to retrieve the profile, where he had identified himself as “Simu” a number of times.A post shared by Simu Liu (@simuliu)Aside from being active in the r/AZNidentity subreddit (which has been called out for organizing “targeted harassment of Asian women, especially [those] with non-Asian partners and/or mixed kids”), his most disturbing post was from 2015, when he casually compared pedophiles to the LGBTQ+ community.Liu allegedly wrote that he conducted “a significant amount of research” in preparation for portraying a pedophile in a show (likely 2015’s Canadian crime series Blood and Water), and while he made it clear that pedophilia was wrong, the preparation made him “much more sympathetic to anyone who is born with those urges”… which he then likened to homosexual attraction.“From a biological standpoint, it’s no different than being gay – a small mutation in the genome that defines our sexual preferences,” he allegedly wrote. “Depending on what area of the world you were born and what time, it also may have been a perfectly acceptable thing to act on those urges.”If his POV seems hard to understand, he reportedly ended the post with: “TL;DR: Actor played a pedophile for a TV show, did research, discovered being a pedophile not so different from being gay.
