“Once we gave people the ability to judge other people, I think we ran amok,” said the View host.
, the actress mused that the singing competition is responsible for igniting a hypercritical culture in which everyone is obsessed with judging one another.“I think, you know, that we as a society love to watch stuff, to judge folks,” Goldberg said during a discussion with her co-panelists this week.
“Once we gave people the ability to judge other people, I think we ran amok,” she added. “They invite the public to decide who that person was. It began us in a cycle.”
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