Fox News reports that popular actor Matthew McConaughey continued to call out the toxic cancel culture caused by those that hold ‘extreme’ and unwavering views.
Matthew McConaughey first raised the alarm about the “hypocrisy of asking conservatives to rally behind President-elect Joe Biden after four years of animosity toward President Donald Trump and his supporters” when he spoke to Russell Brand on Brand’s podcast, “Under the Skin.”
During the podcast, Brand asked McConaughey about Hollywood’s contempt for “ordinary working people,” and McConaughey said that “there are a lot of people on the illiberal left that absolutely condescend, patronize and are arrogant toward the other 50 percent.”
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McConaughey condemned liberals that tell conservatives to get over it and “accept the 2020 election” after spending the last four years screaming about Donald Trump being an illegitimate president. He said, “I’m sure you saw it in our industry when Trump was voted in four years ago; they were in denial that was real. Some of them were in absolute denial.”
Doubling down on Tuesday’s episode of ‘Good Morning Britain,’ Matthew McConaughey blaming both ‘illiberals’ and the ‘extreme right’ for the division in our country. He said, “You need liberals. What I don’t think we need is the illiberals. And what I don’t think that some liberals see is that they’re often being cannibalized by the illiberals.”
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He doesn’t hold punches against the ‘extreme right,’ saying, “now there are extremes on both sides that I think are unfair, that I don’t think are the right place to be.”
He said we need “the liberal and conservative side” to be present in our society but that “the extreme left and the extreme right completely illegitimize the other side.” McConaughey explains that “the two extremes illegitimize those two sides or they exaggerate that side’s stance into an irrational state.”
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The division in America will not be fixed without “confrontation.” McConaughey said, “you’ve got to have confrontation to have unity.” He said, “I would argue we don’t have true confrontation right now, confrontation that gives some validation and legitimizes that opposing point of view. We don’t give legitimacy or validation to an opposing point of view, we make it persona non grata, and that’s unconstitutional.”
Matthew McConaughey blames the uncertainty and stress that exacerbates this divide on Americans being in a suspended state of ‘limbo.’ “Limbo is the hardest part. I think we all do better when we have a definitive yes or no or an understanding of when the ending is going to be of something, of some crisis.”
Americans “haven’t had that for some time,” McConaughey said.
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