He recalled to the outlet that he had “made a joke, months ago, and got a treatise from my daughter.”
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“She left the table. I said, ‘Come on, that’s a joke! I say it in the movieStuck on You!’ " Damon said in the interview. “She went to her room and wrote a very long, beautiful treatise on how that word is dangerous. And I said, ‘I retire the f-slur!’ I understood.”
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Damon didn’t disclose which daughter he had the conversation with (the star shares daughters Stella, 10, Gia, 12, Isabella, 15, and Alexia, 22, with wife Luciana Barroso). But in his statement on Monday, he said, “this conversation with my daughter was not a personal awakening.”
He went on to detail the conversation he says he had with his daughter.
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Damon said he was proud of his daughter.
“To my admiration and pride, she was extremely articulate about the extent to which that word would have been painful to someone in the LGBTQ+ community regardless of how culturally normalized it was,” Damon said. “I not only agreed with her but thrilled at her passion, values and desire for social justice.”
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“I have learned that eradicating prejudice requires active movement toward justice rather than finding passive comfort in imagining myself ‘one of the good guys,’ " Damon said. “And given that open hostility against the LGBTQ+ community is still not uncommon, I understand why my statement led many to assume the worst.”
“To be as clear as I can be, I stand with the LGBTQ+ community,” theAcademy Awardwinner added.
source: people.com
