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Obama’s Very Boomer View of ‘Cancel Culture’
NY Times ^ | November 1, 2019 | Ernest Owens

Posted on 11/04/2019 7:10:40 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

When Barack Obama talks, everyone listens.

That’s why I paid close attention to his remarks about young people and our activism on social media at a Tuesday Obama Foundation event, and why I gasped at what I heard: “This idea of purity and you’re never compromised and you’re always politically ‘woke’ and all that stuff. You should get over that quickly. The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws. People who you are fighting may love their kids. And share certain things with you.”

He doubled down on his finger-wagging, criticizing college students in particular who, in his view, think, “The way of me making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people and that’s enough.”

“That’s not activism,” Mr. Obama said. “That’s not bringing about change. If all you’re doing is casting stones, you’re probably not going to get that far. That’s easy to do.”

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Neither the number of critics, the severity of the criticism, nor the extent of the actual fallout from it seem particularly important.”) is misguided. His eagerness to dismiss one part of what happens when young people stand up for what they believe in as “casting stones” is a reminder of a largely generational divide about whether it’s impolite to speak out in favor of the most vulnerable among us and the world we’d like to live in. While there’s some debate about which generation Mr. Obama belongs to, he’s solidly in the older camp.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cancelculture; obama
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To: FamiliarFace
LOL! A conservative is a liberal who's had kids.
21 posted on 11/04/2019 7:49:44 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: NobleFree

Indeed


22 posted on 11/04/2019 7:51:34 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I’m all in with the “Cancel Obama” culture.


23 posted on 11/04/2019 7:52:59 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Obama has said main reasonable things over the years, the problem is he doesn’t follow his own advice...

The left marched off a cliff in the 90s... Obamas election hid the problem.... and let them continue their delusions


24 posted on 11/04/2019 7:53:59 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

If all you’re doing is casting stones, you’re probably not going to get that far.
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The Kenyan from Indonesia recognizes that Americans are sick of being pelted with stones.


25 posted on 11/04/2019 7:57:57 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

It means if you say or tweet something that the left finds offensive then they will do everything in their power to get you fired from you job and ostracized from society in every way possible.

Literally out to destroy a persons life if they don’t like their opinions.


26 posted on 11/04/2019 8:05:57 AM PST by crusher2013
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To: bigbob

Obama realizes the left is in the process of turning into a circular firing squad—and he would be one of the victims.


27 posted on 11/04/2019 8:09:33 AM PST by cgbg (Vote Trump or you will _be_ Trump)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
"When Barack Obama talks, everyone listens."

Ridiculous assertion.


28 posted on 11/04/2019 8:10:44 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: RummyChick
...Obama's $90M Netflix deal (?) has a lot to do with it....he needs less radical
people to watch his shows. Probably parlaying this into an even bigger deal....

Right as rain....he does NOTHING unless he gets paid.

Moreover, I suspect the $90M figure is Netflix's suck-up to his massive ego rather than an actual payout.

29 posted on 11/04/2019 8:11:46 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: bigbob

ValJar fed those lines to him, no doubt.

Purpose is to blow smoke up the voters’ shorts.


30 posted on 11/04/2019 8:11:59 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

bkmk


31 posted on 11/04/2019 8:23:21 AM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
His eagerness to dismiss one part of what happens when young people stand up for what they believe in as “casting stones” is a reminder of a largely generational divide

If defense of free speech and tolerance of ideas different from one's own is in fact divided by generations, then the question becomes "how and why did American boomers raise a generation of fascists?".
32 posted on 11/04/2019 9:07:50 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
When Barack Obama talks, everyone listens.

Fake news. Will they ever learn?

33 posted on 11/04/2019 2:28:19 PM PST by Libloather (CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE!)
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