'Shang-Chi' Star Simu Liu's Alleged Reddit Posts Compared Pedophiles To Being Gay, 'It's No Different'
Sept. 18 2021, Published 5:55 p.m. ET
New Marvel hero Simu Liu allegedly once compared pedophilia to homosexuality on Reddit and claimed to feel "sympathetic" towards the group.
In the newly unsurfaced messages, the actor said based on the research he'd done, biologically, being a pedophile "is no different than being gay."
In a now-deleted post from 2015, Simu allegedly stated that he was an actor and did a show where he played a pedophile, which prompted him to do a significant amount of research on the role.
"From a biological standpoint, it's no different than being gay- a small mutation in the genome that defines our sexual preference," he allegedly explained following his research. "Depending on what area of the world you were born and what time, it also may have been a perfectly acceptable thing to act on those urges."
In the messages allegedly written by the Shang-Chi star, he allegedly said the evidence he found made him "much more sympathetic to anyone who is born with those urges."
The Reddit account owner also claimed the society has gone about the group "completely the wrong way" before comparing it again to how homosexuality was perceived "20 years ago."
"It's like we having learned anything by studying homosexuality - we're talking about exploring the same 'cures' to pedophilia as were about homosexuality 20 years ago, a la conversion therapy and whatnot."
Although the user, who people believed to be Simu, continued his post by encouraging others to avoid child pornography.
"Please