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Cardi B denies posting transphobic meme on her Facebook page
The rapper blames a ‘former team member’

Cardi B (Screenshot via YouTube)
Cardi B has denied posting a transphobic meme on her official Facebook page.
The meme shows a man walking through a door and uses a transphobic slur. Although it was posted on Cardi B’s Facebook, she says she wasn’t responsible.
Left: @iamcardib tweet from May 2018
Right: Cardi B Facebook post an hour ago. pic.twitter.com/li07Wh04pW
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) September 16, 2018
“It’s come to my attention that there have been offensive posts made on what used to be my Facebook page. For the past year and a half a FORMER team member has been the only one with access to the account,” Cardi B tweeted.
It’s come to my attention that there have been offensive posts made on what used to be my Facebook page. For the past year and a half a FORMER team member has been the only one with access to the account.
— iamcardib (@iamcardib) September 16, 2018
Cardi B has been criticized in the past for using the same transphobic slur. The rapper apologized for using the word saying she “did not know that that was a bad word ‘cause trans people use it.”
She also defended her husband Offset for rapping lyrics some people took as homophobic.
“I do not vibe with queers, I got the heart of a bear, I bust ’em down by the pair,” Offset raps on “Boss Life.”
Offset claimed he did not write the line about gay people. Cardi B supported Offset by saying “I’m not gonna let somebody call him homophobic when I know that he’s not. I’m saying this because I see him around gays, and he treats them with the same respect he treats everybody. He never acts uncomfortable, and he just don’t care.”
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