Mexican boxer Dario Larralde has apologized after saying he supports Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler by calling gays “a plague.”
In a since-deleted video on Twitter earlier this month, the boxer said: “F**k gays, I have f**** phobia… everywhere I go, every day, there's always a gay guy on the corner looking at me. And I hate it! Because I? I’m a gay magnet.”
He added that he was sorry if gay fans were watching, but that “everything your community does, everything you do, everything you stand for, pisses me off. I will never accept this.
Larralde appeared to recommend violent action to his followers, saying, “You say 'NO' and these guys lighten up, man! And there they are right behind you, trying it ten times, until you get angry and snap, they won't understand.
"And you can't even hit them because then they start with 'Well, I'm gay!' Gays irritate me, they irritate me. I know Hitler was a bad person, but I support him on this.”
“Fuck gays are a plague. They irritate me, they make me sick, I will never understand them. I hate them,” he added.
Tens of thousands of gay men were tortured, castrated, imprisoned and killed under the Nazi regime.
Dario Larralde apologized for his anti-gay video
After his video sparked outrage online, Larralde posted another video on Twitter on December 8, in which he denied being homophobic, saying: “I offer a huge and sincere apology… I have nothing against lesbians, nothing against transgender people. I have nothing against gays.
He continued: “I don't hate gays, I'm not homophobic in that sense – and that word 'homophobia' is bad. Everything I said is bad.
Larralde, who said the original video led to threats against him, his family and girlfriend, expressed support for the right of gays to “advance, have lives and adopt children” but reiterated his views on gays and sexual harassment.
“It's something I don't tolerate and that's what bothers me about the gay community,” he said, adding that he's “only encountered gays who torment and don't understand that I don't die because of their team.” or that I have a girlfriend. Is not fair."
The boxer said he was making “a sincere apology” and that he was glad that “you all are more accepted now, more supported.” I am happy for you".
Larralde also told his followers on December 8 that he was leaving Twitter. However, he posted another video two days later on Monday (December 10) – the same day he used the n-word in an Instagram post – in which he expressed surprise that his pro-Hitler comments were “ a plague.” attracted new fans who wanted people Gay Boys would die.
“What’s with these people?” He asked. “They keep saying, 'Gays are a plague, we have to exterminate them,' I want genocide and I want to kill everyone.'
He insisted: “What the fuck? What is up with that? I never said that. If you want, you can watch the original video. All I said was, 'Hitler was a bad person, but I agree that gays are a plague.'
“So I said I hated them seven times over. But I explained. I was upset that day, things got hot, and then I was harassed that day. I explained this.
