Barack Obama powerslams Woke culture

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Mnementh said:

TonsofPuppies said:
While he's not wrong, he looks pretty silly saying this, considering the huge role that he and his party played in popularizing identity politics. Obama perpetuates myths like the 77% "gender pay gap", so this stance looks pretty fake, coming from him. Perhaps he's finally opened his eyes and realized that the political left has gone far too far, but I don't trust anything he says.

He doesn't criticize having a position on things, he criticizes the current trend to absolutely destroy everyone with a different opinion, even a slightly diverging opinion. That doesn't mean he won't have an opinion about gender pay gap.

What Obama said regarding the gender pay gap was not an “opinion”. He took misleading data and spun it as a fact - a “fact” that a lot of uninformed people still believe and reference. Also, he can have an opinion on anything, just like everyone else - my point is that the current trend of identity politics (of which “woke” and “call out” culture are strongly intertwined) was propagated hugely by him and the Democratic Party during his presidency.