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President Obama recently spoke out again against the current culture on college campus that has students attempting to shut down speech they don’t agree with in the name of inclusion, including promoting campus wide “safe spaces” from controversial ideas, disinviting speakers from campus, and creating a chilling environment towards campus discourse with the promotion of “trigger warnings.”
Obama, in a Dec. 15 exit interview with NPR, touched on his feelings regarding the current state of discourse on college campuses. NPR’s Inskeep asked if President-elect Trump had a legitimate point that “political correctness in this country has gone too far.” Obama, stuttering for a bit (as usual), conceded that this was a “tricky,” issue, and that “the definition of political correctness is all over the map.”
Obama stated, “When there’s broad disapproval that’s expressed when somebody uses a racial epithet or somebody makes a derogatory comment…
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