Obama goes after Leftist intolerance

Published July 18, 2018 6:23pm ET



Former President Barack Obama zeroed in on the Left’s streak of intentional intolerance again this week.

“Democracy demands that we’re able also to get inside the reality of people who are different than us so we can understand their point of view. Maybe we can change their minds, maybe they’ll change ours. You can’t do this if you just out of hand disregard what your opponent has to say from the start,” he said in a speech on Tuesday. “And you can’t do it if you insist that those who aren’t like you, because they are white or they are male, somehow there is no way they can understand what I’m feeling, that somehow they lack standing to speak on certain matters.”

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