Obama On Political Correctness

[Newell Steamer]

http://www.vox.com/2015/9/14/9326965/obama-political-correctness

At a town hall here on college affordability on Monday afternoon, one student asked Obama to respond to Republican presidential contender Ben Carson's proposal to cut off funding to colleges that demonstrate political bias.

"I have no idea what that means, and I suspect he doesn’t either," he said, then continued: "The idea that you’d have somebody in government making a decision about what you should think ahead of time or what you should be taught, and if it’s not the right thought, or idea, or perspective or philosophy, that person would be — they wouldn’t get funding, runs contrary to everything we believe about education," he said. "That might work in the Soviet Union, but that doesn’t work here. That's not who we are."

Wait.

I am TOTES lost.

I thought liberals wanted to control everyone's thoughts. Yet, here is our glorious leader telling us that is not the case AND pointing out that a Republican is actually looking to control everyone's thoughts.

After that criticism, he went on to give his opinion about what's been called the "new political correctness" on college campuses:

It’s not just sometimes folks who are mad that colleges are too liberal that have a problem. Sometimes there are folks on college campuses who are liberal, and maybe even agree with me on a bunch of issues, who sometimes aren’t listening to the other side, and that’s a problem too. I’ve heard some college campuses where they don’t want to have a guest speaker who is too conservative or they don’t want to read a book if it has language that is offensive to African-Americans or somehow sends a demeaning signal towards women. I gotta tell you, I don’t agree with that either. I don’t agree that you, when you become students at colleges, have to be coddled and protected from different points of view. I think you should be able to — anybody who comes to speak to you and you disagree with, you should have an argument with ‘em. But you shouldn’t silence them by saying, "You can’t come because I'm too sensitive to hear what you have to say." That’s not the way we learn either.

What gives Conservatives?? Oh! I get it!! You guys are just projecting!!

Whew,.. and here I thought my world was upside down for a second!!

 

[rudder]

Whew,.. and here I thought my world was upside down for a second!!

It still is upside down and obama is still an idiot. This is not an attempt to control thinking... it is about colleges using taxpayer funds on speakers to promote the liberal agenda. All the while censoring speakers such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali who can be viewed as anti-muslim as she discussed the horrors of genital mutilation.

 

[JockoJohnson]

Good for Obama. I applaud what he said about colleges and the sissy students that can't handle an opposing viewpoint. Look at Liberty University and compare it to Rutgers and what they did to Condoleezza Rice.

And you are still a dumbass. Nothing is going to change that. You had a perfectly good story and then you proceed to fuck it up with your stupid garbage. You just can't help yourself, can you? I don't see this thread going places except in the trash where most of your threads devolve.

 

[fskimospy]

It still is upside down and obama is still an idiot. This is not an attempt to control thinking... it is about colleges using taxpayer funds on speakers to promote the liberal agenda. All the while censoring speakers such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali who can be viewed as anti-muslim as she discussed the horrors of genital mutilation.

I wonder what you would say if Obama said the federal government should search for schools that it considers to be too conservatively biased and cut federal funding from them. I'm sure you would be right there saying it was fine, that it was just about colleges using taxpayer funds on promoting the conservative agenda.

 

[Jaskalas]

I suspect we'd all be highly entertained and highly informed by a 1 on 1 discussion between the two men.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

It still is upside down and obama is still an idiot. This is not an attempt to control thinking... it is about colleges using taxpayer funds on speakers to promote the liberal agenda. All the while censoring speakers such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali who can be viewed as anti-muslim as she discussed the horrors of genital mutilation.

What exactly is the liberal agenda? I want to make sure my taxes are funding it correctly. Thanks.

 

[Greenman]

http://www.vox.com/2015/9/14/9326965/obama-political-correctness





Wait.

I am TOTES lost.

I thought liberals wanted to control everyone's thoughts. Yet, here is our glorious leader telling us that is not the case AND pointing out that a Republican is actually looking to control everyone's thoughts.



What gives Conservatives?? Oh! I get it!! You guys are just projecting!!

Whew,.. and here I thought my world was upside down for a second!!

"Obama said so", that makes it an iron clad fact. You won this round.