Faced with journalist Anderson Cooper, Barack Obama was invited to speak for CNN about the political situation in his country, on which he casts a harsh judgment - and worried.
While he unsurprisingly imputes, as a priority, to Donald Trump the responsibility for the deterioration of the democratic climate, he also dwelled on the emergence of the "
cancel culture
" and the radicalization of political correctness, while American universities seem to be delivered. more than ever to this movement which suffocates freedom of opinion and expression on campuses (as evidenced a few days ago by a Figaro report in Georgetown).
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First giving pledges to anti-racist activists by considering that the history of segregation "
persists and continues
", the former president then did not mince his words, evoking the "
dangers
" of fashion which he believes is "
to condemn people all the time,
”explaining that he realizes this through the experience of his own daughters, Malia and Sasha, who experience it from the inside out on college campuses. "
They realize that this is going too far
", he commented again, adding that "
one cannot require people to be politically correct in all circumstances.
".
He then distinguished the fight against discrimination, necessary according to him, from permanent victimization, in particular through social networks.
Barack Obama had also pleaded in the past against the Manichean vision of social interactions advocated by the "
woke
"
movement
, explaining at a summit in Chicago that "
the world is complex, ambiguous
" and had deliberately made fun of people who "
Tweet or throw a hashtag to denounce the use of an inappropriate verb in a sentence, then sit down and feel proud of them
".