Marvel’s newest star Simu Liu is drawing flak from Twitter and social media after some of his old and possibly problematic Reddit posts started circulating the internet last September 17.
A now-deleted Reddit account called /u/nippedinthebud has been linked to Simu Liu, and it seems that some old posts dating back to 2015 can cause trouble for the young star. The tweet below shows some of the posts he made:
/u/nippedinthebud appears to be Simu Liu's archived Reddit account
It shows him commenting in the racist incel subreddit called into question (among other things) pic.twitter.com/SXyoKu2Kaf
— Neb | 🏳️🌈 (@NebsGoodTakes) September 17, 2021
The Twitter user provides proof telling us that /u/nippedinthebud is really Simu Liu’s former Reddit account.
Apologies for this not being clear, but if you google "Reddit /u/nippedinthebud" this AMA shows up + other comments, showing that he posted the thread even though it just says [deleted] now
He would've been verified by the mods of that subreddit to post the thread
— Neb | 🏳️🌈 (@NebsGoodTakes) September 17, 2021
In one post, it seems that he talks about gender equality, citing that “girls are just not as good as boys at sports.” However, this post was debunked by Twitter.
In another post, he talks about terrorism and the killing of innocent lives, shocking some Twitter users and making them believe he promotes terrorist attacks. However, this post has once again been debunked by one Twitter user, as seen below.
2) 2015: Answering another AskReddit question, "What is something people do that makes you instantly despise them?," he describes things terrorists do and is frustrated by the "first world problems" being offered as answers by others. #SimuLiu pic.twitter.com/VSOmIOi0TC
— 🇺🇦 Katie Bee 🏳️🌈 (@Katie_Bee__) September 17, 2021
Finally, here is a post in which he finds it appropriate to compare pedophilia and homosexuality:
tw / homophobia, pedophilia
taken straight from simu liu’s reddit, here’s his comparison between pedophilia and homosexuality in 2015 😐 pic.twitter.com/gn52hd7kfS
— kaz ☽☾ (@lqvekanthony) September 17, 2021
This seems like the most problematic post that was discovered in his former Reddit account. Many users found that his comparison of pedophilia and homosexuality was completely irresponsible.
However, other users thought he was trying to express that there is a proper treatment for pedophilia. It may seem he wrote the post in good faith, but no one has excused the carelessness in establishing the point he wanted to make.
i'd argue that his past involvement on incel forums is more concerning, but those are easy traps to fall into that prey on vulnerable men, and it really is truly dependent on his current behavior whether that conditioning has stuck. this post is pretty much a non-issue
— cursed ceasefiretoday.com (@cursedgmerchild) September 17, 2021
https://twitter.com/bigmoneysexman/status/1439158933894176777?s=20
As a result of all the recent troubles these posts cause, social media users want an official response from Simu Liu himself, addressing the problematic nature of his Reddit posts, and maybe even an apology as well.
The closest response we’ve gotten from Liu is a reply to a Twitter thread he made two years earlier, which also addressed former issues.
“Oh cool this is here” was tweeted a few hours after his former Reddit posts circulated around Twitter. It seems like an attempt to bring attention to tweets from two years ago, in which he states, “Just a reminder that I do not ever EVER advocate for anything other than positivity.”
In this old thread, he also emphasizes that people can change and grow for the better.
“If you dig back far enough, I’m sure you’ll find a more immature version of me who gave in to anger and hate. It doesn’t make me a hypocrite; it makes me a human being.”