Former President Barack Obama admitted there are “dangers” to the unremitting cancel culture, saying his daughters even acknowledge where it’s gone “overboard.”
He made the comments during an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
“At least in conversations with my daughters,” Obama said, “I think that a lot of the dangers of cancel culture are that we’re just going to be condemning people all the time. At least among my daughters, they will acknowledge sometimes among their peer group or in college campuses you’ll see folks going overboard.”
The Democrat went on to say of his two daughters, Malia and Sasha, “T]hey have a pretty good sense of look, we don’t want — we don’t expect everybody to be perfect. We don’t expect everyone to be politically correct all the time. But we are going to call out institutions or individuals if they’re being cruel, if they are, you know, discriminating against people.”
Obama also took a swipe at conservatives and right-leaning media sources warning about the perceived problems with critical race theory.
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Rather than focusing on “major issues” like “the economy and climate change,” he said, so many on the right are centering no critical race theory.
“There are certain right-wing media venues, for example, that monetize and capitalize on stoking the fear and resentment of a white population that is witnessing a changing America,” Obama said.
The 59-year-old politician told Cooper the hostility in the U.S. on racial issues is due to the fact that Americans have not “fully reconciled” with the country’s history.
Obama said it’s difficult for white Americans to “recognize that you can be proud of this country and its traditions and its history and our forefathers, yet it is also true that this terrible stuff happened.”
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