Not really...however with the current political climate, and in your post, you said, "The speaker is none other than the hugely uninformed Carlos Santana and he is still apologizing to the world's 'social justice warrior' community for these words.
99.9% of said SJWs have never had the 'vedette' genre explained to them before but, nonetheless, are just too smart to listen and think about it. And this is just the so-called 'Left'… never you mind the 'Center' and the 'Right'", seemed to describe an indication of by criticizing Beyonce there has been some backlash to him...or why would he have to be 'apologizing'?....and that said, I doubt that his critics would be basing their criticism on his musical/theatrical observations alone.
...after all, Beyonce has interjected herself into the political scene, and some would, or could, misinterpret the motives for criticizing her, for that alone....nonetheless, I can't totally disagree with Santana's assessment.

Entertainers should be cautious about jumping on passing political bandwagons, because by doing so, they risk losing half their audiences....

Regards,
GfS