Barack Obama powerslams Woke culture

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Chrkeller said:

TonsofPuppies said:

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.  

This is a very flawed reasoning. It doesn't matter what your age, degree or workplace is. What matters is what profit you bring to the company. I work in a hospital (not in the US) and the salary is mainly based on the workload you have. If you bring more patients you get a higher pay. Your base pay is the same regardless of the gender. It's a simple mathematical formula.

Obviously this is as anecdotal as your example but the point is that in a capitalistic society there will always be discrepancies in the salary. It doesn't mean that they're due to gender or racial inequality.