Despite the Democrats’ massive defeat in 2016, rising racial tensions, and growing income inequality, social justice warriors still love Barack Obama. However, the outgoing President’s message to college students was a slap in the face to the snowflakes who live to be insulted.
Steve Inskeep of NPR interviewed Obama on Monday where he told college students to learn from diverse ideas and debate them rather than banning them.
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“My advice to progressives like myself, and this is advice I give my own daughters who are about to head off to college, is don’t go around just looking for insults,” Obama said to NPR. “You’re tough. If somebody says something you don’t agree with, just engage them on their ideas.”
Obama gave that same advice to his daughter Malia who’ll be attending Harvard University in 2017.
“[Y]ou don’t have to feel that somehow because you’re a black woman that you’re being assaulted,” he continued. “But speak up for yourself, and if you hear somebody saying something that’s insulting, feel free to say to that guy, ‘You know what? You’re rude, ’ or ‘you’re ignorant’ and take them on.”
At the same time, President Obama also said that you could disagree with someone about policy or politics without insulting them.
“We have, and this is a tricky issue and here’s why: Because the definition of political correctness is all over the map. And I suspect the president-elect’s definition of political correctness would be different than mine,” Obama stated. “If what’s meant by political correctness is that there is some broad disapproval that’s expressed when somebody uses a racial epithet or somebody makes a derogatory comment about women, or about the LGBT community, and people say, ‘Hey, you shouldn’t do that. That’s wrong, that’s cruel, that’s hurtful. Here’s the history of that word.’ And when you use words like that, you’re reinforcing people feeling like they’re outsiders, and less than other Americans.”
“I don’t consider that political correctness. I consider that good manners, sound values and hard-fought gains in the nature of American society and American community.”
Watch the clip about political correctness at the 40-minute mark:
