CNN’s Abby Phillip Calls on Liberals to Admit They Cancelled or Censored Too Much

FOSTER: “I heard earlier this week Ezra Klein and Ross Douthat having a conversation. And there was this moment where Ezra says, ‘You know, I probably needed to acknowledge back a couple of years ago that we were a little too censorious, that the left was actually interested in kind of intimidating people.’”
PHILLIP: “I think that’s something more liberals should say.”
FOSTER: “I think it would help.”
PHILLIP: “They should acknowledge, not just in passing, but actively acknowledge where things went wrong. That’s the only way to move forward — “
FOSTER: “Agreed.”
PHILLIP: “— I think, in a way, because otherwise — “
Allison: “What would we acknowledge?”
PHILLIP: “I think you have to acknowledge that there is a — listen, cancel culture was a thing. Okay? It was actually a thing. And it’s not it’s not just enough to say, ‘Well, my cancel culture was fine, but yours is wrong.’ There has to be an acknowledgment that, yeah, now I think everybody understands what free speech really looks like and what it means. And then you have to apply that thinking to what was happening four or five or six years ago and say something now.”