{"id":20189,"date":"2015-02-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/24\/sean-penns-controversial-comment-to-alejandro-gonzalez-at-the-oscars-who-gave-this-son-of-a-bitch-his-green-card-generate-huge-social-media-stir\/"},"modified":"2015-02-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T00:00:00","slug":"sean-penns-controversial-comment-to-alejandro-gonzalez-at-the-oscars-who-gave-this-son-of-a-bitch-his-green-card-generate-huge-social-media-stir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/sean-penns-controversial-comment-to-alejandro-gonzalez-at-the-oscars-who-gave-this-son-of-a-bitch-his-green-card-generate-huge-social-media-stir\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Penn’s Controversial Comment to Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez at The Oscars ‘Who gave this son of a bitch his green card?’ generates Huge Social Media Stir!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2015 Academy Awards<\/strong>\u00a0was filled with interesting stories and uplifting speeches from calls to action for ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) and Alzheimer’s diseases, racism, civil rights movement to raising the subject of sexism equal pay for women on the filming business.\u00a0On the other hand,\u00a0Sean Penn<\/strong>‘s comment, right before announcing the winner of the “Best Picture Award”, was probably one of the moments that we will want to forget soon. As the actor prepared to announce “Birdman” as the film of the year, he made a reference to\u00a0Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu<\/strong>‘s (Mexican director of the film) immigration status: “Who gave this son of a bitch his green card?”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Although, Sean Penn is a well-known activist and supporter of numerous social causes, Twitter<\/strong> users immediately denounced what the actor likely thought was a joke with most of them commenting that it was rather xenophobic or an inappropriate reference to the sensitive matter of the plight of thousands of immigrants in the United States. Despite the fact that\u00a0Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu himself responded to Sean Penn’s remark, saying that “it was just a harmless joke among good friends,”<\/em> social media fans still deemed the remark\u00a0offensive.<\/p>\n

Check out some of the Tweets below:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Who gave this guy a green card?” Sean Penn talking about a Mexican dude to a room full of British & Australian people…<\/p>\n

\u2014 Mario Lopez (@MarioLopezExtra) February 23, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n