Barack Obama powerslams Woke culture

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TonsofPuppies said:

Mnementh said:

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.

In my personal experience the pay gap isn't a myth.  I went to the same grad school, graduated the same time, had the exact same degree, ended up working in the exact same research group, doing the exact same work.  I was making 30% more.  We were the same age, both married, had kids..  Literally there was absolutely no difference between us.  Except I made 30% more and was a male.  Perhaps one would argue that is a one off, but it certainly seems questionable at the very least.