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Obama: ‘Get Over’ Being ‘Woke,’ Stop Online Outrage Cancel Culture

Ryan Saavedra
Obama: ‘Get Over’ Being ‘Woke,’ Stop Online Outrage Cancel Culture
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Former President Barack Obama warned young people in Chicago on Tuesday that they should “quickly” get over trying to be “woke” because the world is a complex place and that young people need to stop engaging in online outrage mobs and cancel culture.

“This idea of purity and you’re never compromised and you’re politically woke and all that stuff — you should get over that quickly,” Obama told an audience at the Obama Foundation Summit.

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