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‘The Good Place’ Creator Megan Amram Was ‘Cancelled’ For Offensive Tweets

Ian Kumamoto

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‘The Good Place’ creator Megan Amram faced intense backlash after racist and homophobic Tweets she wrote between 2011 and 2013 resurfaced online.

Among other things, she used a slur that compared Asians to people with down syndrome and said she would kill all gay people if she had a time machine.


William Jackson Harper, who played Chidi Anagonye in The Good Place, Tweeted on Friday that he had been “wrestling for a while with how to respond to Megan Amram’s tweets,” and that “we can’t tolerate those sorts of things being said about our Asian brothers and sisters, and in this moment, it’s my duty to be actively anti-racist, and I didn’t do that.”

In contrast, Manny Jacinto, the Filipino-Canadian actor who played Jason Mendoza in The Good Place, posted that he was “shocked and deeply offended” by the Tweets, but that his personal relationship to Amram had been a positive one.

Amram posted a public apology last week.

“The bottom line is I tweeted some careless, hurtful things,” she wrote. “But I can’t. So instead, I have spent the last decade attempting to unlearn the complicit racism I participate in as a white person and becoming the vocally supportive ally I think I am now.”

Some people, however, were not so amused.

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