Obama Says His Daughters’ Generation Understand Overreach of ‘Cancel Culture’

Former President Barack Obama said he believes his daughters’ generation understands the potential “dangers” of “cancel culture.”

“What you and I might have tolerated as, ‘Yeah, that’s sort of how things are,’ their attitude is, why? Let’s change it,” Obama said in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper aired on Monday. “And that’s among not just my daughters, but it’s among their white friends.”

“At least in conversations with my daughter, I think that a lot of the dangers of cancel culture and 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,” Obama said.

The ex-president has two daughters — 19-year-old Sasha and 22-year-old Malia. Speaking of them, he added, “They have a pretty good sense of, look, we don’t want, we don’t expect everybody to be perfect,” he added. “We don’t expect everybody to be politically correct all the time, but we are going to call out institutions or individuals that… are being cruel, if they’re discriminating against people.”

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