• 2 months ago
D.L. is also pushing back against Pharrell for saying celebrities should keep their political beliefs to themselves ... D.L. says politics has morphed into pop culture and it should be up to individual celebs on whether or not they want to speak out.

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00:00Do you believe that celebrity endorsements push the needle, help campaigns, hurt campaigns,
00:07do they do anything?
00:08We just saw Pharrell come out and say he hates when celebrities speak about politics.
00:12You just had Taylor Swift, who we know has a huge fan base, and she came out and endorsed
00:17Kamala.
00:18Do you think when celebrities get political and start doing their endorsements publicly,
00:22do you think that these actually help the candidates?
00:24Well, I don't know the efficacy it has, but I do know this.
00:28I'm a guy who talks on stage about all the things I see, and it just so happens to a
00:33great degree, politics has morphed into pop culture.
00:37So a lot of things that we'll be joking about or talking about on stage, and I think it's
00:41up to the individual.
00:42If they feel like they want to get involved, we live in a society, and I think the price
00:46of living in a society is that you have to do something.
00:49One of the things you do, that's the price you pay for existing here.
00:53One of the things you do is to bring awareness to political, because every social issue has
00:58a political remedy.
01:00So you can't say people shouldn't be involved in politics.
01:02If you want police reform, you've got to be involved in politics, right?
01:06If you want voters' rights changed, you've got to be involved in politics.
01:10So you can't say, don't be involved in politics if you're this particular endeavor, if this
01:17is your occupation.
01:19I think every citizen has the right to do everything they can do to make their society
01:24better to the extent that they can.
01:28Whether I did this or whatever I did, I hope I would feel the same way.
01:32Now, how people perceive what I do or what other celebrities do, I can't say, and the
01:36efficacy they have, I don't know about.

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