Did Obama just call out calling out?

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Has this been mentioned yet? I wasn't on MN yesterday, and no subject on page 1, so here goes:

www.marketwatch.com/story/barack-obama-to-social-justice-warriors-youre-doing-it-all-wrong-2019-10-30

Obama's the one that started the whole gender wokeness thing; has he finally realised what a Pandora's box he opened? Nothing specific about TGA, but he does use the word woke...

“Like if I tweet or hashtag about how you didn’t do something right, or used the wrong verb, then I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself because: ‘Man, did you see how woke I was? I called you out,’” he said. “That is not activism.”

I should specify: he didn't start gender wokeness. but he basically legalised it in the USA.

Yes he called it out. It’s had a lot of praise on Twitter.

I admit I did not watch the video.
Here's another link:

townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2019/10/30/obama-to-young-people-get-over-being-woke-and-stop-cancel-culture-n2555571

I'm not sure what "cancel culture" is.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call-out_culture

cancel culture describes a form of boycott in which someone (usually a celebrity) who has shared a questionable or unpopular opinion, or has had behavior that is perceived to be either offensive or problematic called out on social media is "canceled"; they are completely boycotted by many of their followers or supporters, often leading to massive declines in celebrities' (almost always social media personalities) careers and fanbase.

Thanks. Well, it's a start. I hope the Dem candidates take note and follow his lead. They are the wokest of the woke.

Don't know if links from spinster work but this was an interesting take on it.

Thanks, Obama. No, really!

medium.com/4th-wave-feminism/obama-just-called-out-woke-culture-will-the-internet-mobs-listen-7d0059a10788
spinster.xyz/@mk/posts/103058575900129397

I posted this on the Glasgow thread. Good to read.

When I read "wrong verb" I immediately thought, he means "wrong pronoun". Others on FB are saying the same thing. We all get it -- we also get that he is treading a fine line, and we get that he gets it.

It's all euphemisms. I guess he can't be outspoken... yet.
Obama is still King to American lefties...

A work colleague who knows my leanings told me about this in the pub last night. It surprised me, but it's welcome.

"Like if I tweet or hashtag about how you didn’t do something right, or used the wrong verb, then I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself because: ‘Man, did you see how woke I was? I called you out,’” he said. “That is not activism.”

It's not activism (let alone actual action) - it's a cheap form of moral licensing.

It seems that cancelling is a thing in US high schools. We used to call it “sending to Coventry” many years ago.
Malory Towers and St. Clare’s books will have examples, I’m sure.
Nothing new under the sun

It seems that cancelling is a thing in US high schools. We used to call it “sending to Coventry” many years ago.

A particularly nasty form of bullying.

Hopefully Obama can have some self-reflection on this issue, and I won’t need to “call him out” on the changes his administration made to Title IX:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_identity_under_Title_IX

Hopefully he'll check out Mumsnet.

Web chat!

This is great news, as others I sincerely hope the pres candidates will take note.

Really hope people listen to this

Hmm, he's still a politician so maybe he's saying it as he knows something's imminently about to break regarding his favoured candidate in the Dem race?

Thank fuck. Long overduem

Janice Turner summing it up nicely in today's Times:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/woke-generation-has-created-a-cult-of-purity-f9cr25vj7?shareToken=2cc652592cd70aee144dfafb2ba8afe5

Fabulous article.

Do you want to stay pure or do you want to win, sums up everything vaguely political in 2019.