LaKeith Stanfield apologizes for participating in Clubhouse room broadcasting anti-Semitic speech - The A.V. Club
Recent Oscar nominee LaKeith Stanfield issued a statement on Instagram last night, saying that he “unconditionally apologizes†after serving as a moderator of a Clubhouse room where a great deal of anti-Semitic hate speech was broadcast.
In explaining the incident, Stanfield wrote that, “At some point during the dialogue, the discussionâ€â€”which took place in a room dedicated to discussing the anti-Semitic rhetoric of Louis Farrakhan—“took a very negative turn when several users made abhorrent anti-Semitic statements, and at that point, I should have either shut down the discussion or removed myself from it entirely.†Stanfield then added that, “I condemn hate speech and discriminatory views of any kind.â€.
The nature of Clubhouse—an audio-only, invitation-mandatory social media app that allows users to join topic-based rooms to chat with each other, and which bans recording—makes it difficult to externally verify the beats of this story.