The push to bring down memorials has renewed criticisms of 'cancel culture' from current and past presidents.
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US President Donald Trump appears to be making it a central part of his re-election campaign. He has deemed cancel culture"far-left fascism", saying it is"driving people from their jobs, shaming dissenters, and demanding total submission from anyone who disagrees...is the very definition of totalitarianism".
"I get a sense among certain young people on social media that the way of making change is to be as judgemental as possible about other people," Mr Obama said.Young people who disagree with Trump and Obama Owens said Mr Obama's generation failed to understand that this was not bullying people with different opinions, but rather pushing back against influential people who had caused harm or could in the future., said those"whose privilege has historically shielded them from public scrutiny" turned to phrases like cancel culture to"delegitimise the criticism".
His address at Mount Rushmore - a controversial memorial on land sacred to Native Americans - focused on these notions of"angry mobs" attacking US culture. He added that Confederate statues of people who"strongly supported secession and maintaining slavery" should go to museums.
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