Whoopi Goldberg defends Harrison Butker after controversial graduation speech: ‘I’m standing up for him’
nypost.comwidely condemned commencement speech. “I like when people say what they need to say. He’s at a Catholic college, he’s a staunch Catholic.
These are his beliefs and he’s welcome to them,” Goldberg said on Thursday’s episode of “The View.” “I don’t have to believe them, I don’t have to accept them, the ladies that were sitting in that audience don’t have to accept them,” she added. “The same way we want respect when Colin Kaepernick takes a knee, we want to give respect to people whose ideas are different from ours because the man who says he wants to be president, You-Know-Who, he says the way to act is to take away people’s right to say how they feel.
We don’t want to be that, we don’t want to be those people.”Goldberg was referring to Butker’s commencement speech at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan., on Saturday, May 11.
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