After France knocked Paraguay out of the World Cup, Paraguayan senator Celeste Amarilla completely lost it. She started posting racist comments about Mbappé, calling him a "colonized Cameroonian," saying he's ugly, and a bunch of other stuff. Mbappé saw it and responded. He called her racist, said she wasn't worthy of the position she holds, and said she had completely taken the attention away from Paraguay's incredible World Cup run. The French Football Federation is now looking into legal action. Paraguay's Foreign Ministry also came out and said she doesn't represent the country. Then Senator Amarilla posted a long letter saying she regretted what she said because she wrote it while she was angry... but she also demanded an apology from Mbappé and even threatened legal action if he doesn't apologize. #soccer #football #WorldCup #Mbappe #CelesteAmarilla
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Victimisation goes hard here, Mbappe has every right not to forgive her
Ending your apology with a threat is something else
So essentially an international karen 😅
The Audacity of suing someone you offended
She dares mess with the dictator.. she will learn her lesson soon enough 😅
Gender based violence?!! Girl gimme a break 😂😂
Gender based violence 😂😂😂. This woman is insane i hope she gets sued
The nerve of her to call someone ugly
First embarrassing her country and then embarrassing all women🤦🏻♀️ (To everyone not capable of understanding my comment: just move on and stop being so weird about it💀)
She needs to leave women out of her excuses
And ironically, his tweet was FAR more articulately written than hers
Hey guys, here’s the full letter the Senator wrote to Mbappé: OPEN LETTER TO MBAPPÉ. The problem is between you and me. I have never said anything against France — on the contrary, I am with you. I studied at a French school from the age of 2 until I was 17, and I completed my schooling there. I am who I am thanks to the Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepción, and I am where I am thanks to the education it gave me. We sang La Marseillaise and we honoured its flag alongside our own. I speak French and I love visiting France. I spent last Christmas with my family in Courchevel, and we welcomed the new year in Saint-Tropez. This has nothing to do with France — the problem is with you. Your arrogance and your contempt have been infuriating me since before the match, when you said: "if we have to put our hands in the shit, then let's put them in." We are not stupid — we understand perfectly well that the "shit" was the Paraguayan team, and the Paraguayan team is all of us. Then you said they were going to take the makeup off. We understand that too: that you lot are so elegant with your makeup, while we, poor and rough as we are, don't even know what it is. All of Paraguay stayed silent, myself included. We took it. During the match, your arrogant behaviour was plain to see — your contempt for every player, as if they disgusted you — and, without covering your mouth, you said "la concha de tu madre" [a crude Spanish insult], an extremely aggressive phrase in Latin America, and you know it. And finally, you showed contempt for our goalkeeper's health. That is simply not done. Respect between rivals after a match is almost sacred — in war as in peace, in defeat as in victory — yet you didn't shake his hand, and you shouted your victory in his face. That is simply not done. You showed your contempt, your arrogance and your poor upbringing in a single second. It hurt me, and it hurt my entire country, deeply. France should hold it against you, because France is a country of chivalry, with centuries of history and "savoir-faire". France should reproach you for your behaviour. My posts were written with boiling blood — this mestizo blood, that beautiful blend of indigenous and Spanish blood running through my veins. That is what produced today's posts, when you mocked those immense Paraguayan players who fought you as equals until the end of the match — and I wrote. But straight away I regretted having mistreated you with the same insults that I myself receive — because I too am looked down on for being mestiza and Latina; "dirty", they call us — I regretted it and deleted the post. I realised I was repeating the very patterns I despise, and I deleted it. I understand that it upset you, because it is humiliating. Now, I demand that you retract as well and offer me an apology. I, likewise, will not tolerate your violence. You don't know me, you have no idea who I am, and you have no right to say that I AM A DESPICABLE WOMAN, UNWORTHY OF THE OFFICE I HOLD. I am a Senator of the Paraguayan Nation, elected by the vote; before that I was a National Deputy, also elected by the vote. Thousands of Paraguayan men and women voted for me and consider me their voice. My principal commitment is to be the voice of the Paraguayan people, to say what they cannot, and to defend my country with my life — that is what is expected of me. I represent my country because I was elected in free elections; I was freely elected to make its laws and to be its voice. You have no idea what it means to be elected to defend your country, to be the voice of a people. I was elected National Senator — I don't know whether you grasp the importance of my office. Who are you to call me unworthy or despicable when you don't even know me?!! Pure and simple gender-based violence!!! Political violence against a woman who got where she is through the popular vote of her people. Precisely — you despise me because of my gender; precisely — you insult me because I am a woman. You attack neither my colour nor my preferences; you do not attack my condition as a woman nor my political position. Retract what you said to me, honour your French citizenship and offer an apology — otherwise I may initiate legal action for gender-based violence. Celeste Amarilla Senator of the Paraguayan Nation
She wants him to apologize, while she should be apologizing. 😭
Basically: I apologize, but if you don't forgive me and apologize back, I will cry harder.
When you end your apology with "Or else!" then it's NOT AN APOLOGY!
How did someone with this type of mentality managed to be a senator
Ah yes, insulting someone and then playing victim. Where have I seen this before?
She called him ugly?! Omg the confidence on this woman 😂
That her blood was boiling was no excuse. A normal person does not slip into 1800s level racism for whatever reason
First racism and embarrassing your own country. Then also ending an apology with a threat😭😭🥀🥀🙏