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Shawn Mendes apologises for old ‘racially insensitive’ tweets

The singer posted the tweets when he was 14

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Shawn Mendes has apologised for posting “racially insensitive” tweets when he was a teenager.

The singer was questioned about the old tweets during a Q&A session at a recent meet-and-greet, and fans weren’t impressed by how he responded.

The tweets, which have since been deleted from his account, were posted in 2013 when Shawn was 14 years old, and in one of them he called his friend “mah n***a”.

When asked why he has never acknowledged his “ignorant” tweets at the meet-and-greet, Shawn said: “A lot of things just need to be moved on from.”

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“But I also think that the things that [you] saw, like I had friends when I was 14 who would like take my phone and post things of them because they thought it was funny that I had like 2,000 followers and it was this big thing.”

“And they’d post photos of themselves and at the time I was just like not thinking about it. I had no idea I was going to have 50 million followers, which doesn’t make it any better.”

Shawn added: “But um, yeah totally I apologise for everything insensitive I said in the past, but with that being said, yeah, I think that’s not my personality.”

Fans were quick to call out Shawn for saying people needed to “move on”, and now he’s posted an apology on Instagram.

 

He wrote: “I posted some racially insensitive comments on social media when I was younger, and I am so sorry.”

“I apologize wholeheartedly for what was said & understand how offensive those posts were.”

“There is no place for comments like that, and those words do not represent who I am. I stand for complete inclusivity, equality, & love,” he added.

 

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