{"id":34817,"date":"2016-05-16T08:07:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T12:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34817"},"modified":"2016-05-16T08:07:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T12:07:31","slug":"president-obama-on-political-correctness-and-freedom-of-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/05\/16\/president-obama-on-political-correctness-and-freedom-of-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama on political correctness and freedom of speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely agree with much that Barack Obama says, but I can&#8217;t disagree with this part of <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/15\/obama-blasts-political-correctness-fragi\" target=\"_blank\">his speech to the graduating class at Rutgers University<\/a> this weekend:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Obama strongly condemned the rising anti-intellectual streak on the right \u2014 but also on the left \u2014 in his remarks at Rutgers University\u2019s spring commencement on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>He harshly attacked the policies and rhetoric of Donald Trump (without mentioning him by name), asserting that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee\u2019s deliberate ignorance is destructive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not challenging political correctness,\u201d said Obama. \u201cThat\u2019s just not knowing what you\u2019re talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But he reserved some time at the end of his speech to also criticize students who are too \u201cfragile\u201d to listen to people whose opinions offend them. He said it was a mistake for students to seek to disinvite speakers with whom they disagree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know a couple years ago some folks on this campus got upset that Condoleezza Rice was supposed to speak at a commencement,\u201d said Obama. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a secret that I disagree with many of the foreign policies of Dr. Rice and the previous administration. But the notion that this community or the country would be better served by not hearing from a former secretary of state or shutting out what she had to say, I believe that is misguided.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The answer to bad speech is more speech, Obama continued.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely agree with much that Barack Obama says, but I can&#8217;t disagree with this part of his speech to the graduating class at Rutgers University this weekend: President Obama strongly condemned the rising anti-intellectual streak on the right \u2014 but also on the left \u2014 in his remarks at Rutgers University\u2019s spring commencement on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[158,186,238,351,764],"class_list":["post-34817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-usa","tag-barackobama","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-offensensitivity","tag-politicalcorrectness","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-93z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34818,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34817\/revisions\/34818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}