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Stormzy apologises for past homophobic tweets
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 23 November 2017
Stormzy has apologised for past homophobic tweets, which were recently collated by Pink News.
Going through the British rapper’s Twitter timeline, Pink News found nineteen tweets, posted between 2011 and 2014, in which he used homophobic language. In the various tweets, Stormzy refers to other Twitter users, other performers and TV characters in derogatory terms.
Responding to criticism of his old tweets, Stormzy said in a series of new tweets: “I said some foul and offensive things whilst tweeting years ago at a time when I was young and proudly ignorant. Very hurtful and discriminative views that I’ve unlearned as I’ve grown up and become a man”.
“The comments I made were unacceptable and disgusting, full stop”, he continued. “Comments that I regret and to everyone I’ve offended, I am sorry, these are attitudes I’ve left in the past. The homophobic language I used was, embarrassingly, a part of my vocabulary when I was younger and ignorance made me feel comfortable to use them whilst not understanding the hate and the ramifications they carry”.
“That isn’t an excuse” he added. “I take responsibility for my mistakes and hope you can understand that my younger self doesn’t reflect who I am today”.
