# @cnnpolitics on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2020-06-09T19:22:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) — https://gondola.cc/CNNPolitics

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Ivanka Trump spoke out against "cancel culture" after her virtual commencement speech was scrapped by Wichita State University Tech amid backlash over her father's response to George Floyd's death and the nationwide protests.⁣
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"Our nation's campuses should be bastions of free speech. Cancel culture and viewpoint discrimination are antithetical to academia. Listening to one another is important now more than ever!" Ivanka Trump wrote on Twitter.⁣
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She posted her prerecorded address online instead, in which she focused on the coronavirus pandemic and said her "heart goes out" to the graduates, adding "changes and hardships do not predict failure. In fact they can be the greatest impetus for success."⁣
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The public community college had announced Trump as a speaker and then canceled the same day as criticism quickly mounted.⁣
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"In light of the social justice issues brought forth by George Floyd's death, I understand and take responsibility that the timing of the announcement was insensitive," WSU Tech President Sheree Utash said in a statement. "For this, I'm sorry that was never the intent, and I want you to know I have heard you and we are responding."⁣
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