During an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, former president Barack Obama said that cancel culture has gone too far in American society.
“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’ll acknowledge that among their peer group or in college campuses, you’ll see people going overboard,” said Obama.
Although he said individuals and institutions should be called out if they engage in “cruel” behavior, Obama warned that expecting everybody to be “perfect” was futile.
“We don’t expect everybody to politically correct all the time,” he added.
Former President Barack Obama says cancel culture goes “overboard,” but highlights calling out “institutions or individuals if they are being cruel.” pic.twitter.com/2Se5EECmGn
Obama’s opinion on ‘woke’ puritanism hasn’t shifted since 2019, when he asserted that calling people out on social media for not being politically correct is “not activism.”
“This idea of purity and you’re never compromised and you’re always politically woke and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly,” said Obama, adding, “The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws.”
He also warned leftists that trying to one up each other in terms of political correctness would lead to a “circular firing squad.”
Meanwhile, many on the left still continue to claim that cancel culture doesn’t even exist, even as sports stars continue to be canceled for edgy tweets posted when they were teenagers.
A new film by acclaimed director Alex Lee Moyer set to be released in theaters next month asks the question, “Who is Alex Jones? Is he a dangerous lunatic or a patriotic hero?”
Moyer, who previously directed TFW NO GF, a fascinating insight into the incel sub-culture, has returned with a new documentary movie about one of the most controversial men on the planet today.
A trailer for Alex’s War has just dropped on YouTube, teasing viewers with the promise of taking them on a rollercoaster ride showing Jones’ rise from local radio talk show host to national attention and infamy.
“Alex’s War is an unprecedented close examination of this guarded, mythic figure, and the story of the fracturing of the great American narrative—through the eyes of this man who helped break it,” states the blurb accompanying the film.
The clip charts how the “most banned, most demonized person in the world” became a target of the regime after his once relatively obscure media empire grew to such a level that it helped elect President Donald Trump in 2016.
Footage shows Jones cutting his teeth in the late 90’s by confronting deceitful councils and exposing corrupt local politicians.
It then zooms forward to 2015, when a major centerpiece of Trump launching his presidential campaign was an appearance on Jones’ show during which Trump described Jones as “amazing.”
The persecution of Jones in the form of his sustained demonization and deplatforming, which intensified after January 6, is also documented.
“OK, let’s put me in prison for questioning, even though that’s my right,” states Jones in the documentary. “In fact let’s execute Alex Jones, let’s put me in front of a firing squad and pull the trigger.”
“I have a sick feeling actually, because I know what comes next,” he adds.
The movie will be showing in select theaters on July 29th and will be available for video download on the same date.