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Obama Warns Against Irresponsible Social Media Use (bbc.com)
In his first interview since leaving the White House in January, former President Barack Obama spoke about the dangers of irresponsible use of social media. From a report on BBC: He warned that such actions were distorting people's understanding of complex issues, and spreading misinformation. "All of us in leadership have to find ways in which we can recreate a common space on the internet," he said. The former president expressed concern about a future where facts are discarded and people only read and listen to things that reinforce their own views. "One of the dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities. They can be cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases. The question has to do with how do we harness this technology in a way that allows a multiplicity of voices, allows a diversity of views, but doesn't lead to a Balkanisation of society and allows ways of finding common ground," he said.
You can keep your doctor. We have a red line in Syria.
You can't really call him divisive just because the GOP blew all their dog whistles to ferment a fury of hatred from their minions... His policies were nothing approaching controversial and he had not a single scandal in his whole 8 years in the White House.
This is entirely accurate. Obama didn't create division himself, he didn't do identity politics either. That was all other people using him to create rage.
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he had not a single scandal
Fast and Furious. Benghazi was not because of a film. The entire Syrian conflict, fuelled by the CIA and Pentagon. Drone strikes in how many countries across Africa, north Africa, the middle east, and central Asia?
Race relations are at an all time low partly because of Obama's support of false narratives like "hands up" and his disregard to law enforcement by taking sides before all the facts were known. He fostered the environment where white nationalists grew because he turned every criticism against him and his agenda as racist which in turned was used elsewhere in society. Everything is racist because Obama championed that winning tactic.
His polices were controversial. Half the country didn't want Obamacare. Not only that, the way he tried to force his agenda without congress was controversial. His expansion in Title 9 on college has turned the university in an adult day care center were feelings trump facts and everything is harassment.
Not a single scandal? Fast and Furious. IRS targeting political opponents. How about more recently: Obama's DoJ halted drug smuggling investigations of Hezbollah to aid Obama's Iran deal. Do we even dare talk about the meeting on the tarmac?
Did you really not pay attention to the last 8 years?
Yes, we do. We live in an age where the POTUS lashes out via Twitter on a daily basis.
Yeah, I know. Night and day. Trump hasn't used the IRS or the FBI to attack his political enemies like Obama did. Don't be fooled by loquaciousness and perspicacity, you're smarter than that.
It was Obama who pushed the Russians and Chinese together, not Trump, after his sanctions against Russia in response to the Ukrainian fiasco. It was Obama who fomented a civil war from a domestic situation in a thoroughly corrupt country, Ukraine, when he sent the CIA director to advise the coup government in Kiev the day before they declared war on their own citizens in the east of the country.
It was Obama who degraded the dignity and respect of America's foreign services when he declared that Raymond Davis, CIA, Blackwater contractor James Bond wannabe, a diplomat entitled to the highest level of diplomatic immunity after he killed two Pakistani citizens with an illegal gun, thus severely damaging diplomatic relations with that country.
It was Obama who exacerbated an already unstable situation in Syria when he armed the so-called resistance fighters, thus making sure the country blew up into a full fledged civil war. The war in Syria never was one for diplomatic reforms. It is just a battle among factions, many who are not inclined to respect American values.
The Mid-East is littered with graves of innocent men, women and children blown up by bombs from 30,000 feet. Dropped from American planes, on Obama's orders.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
The BBC isn't biased ? Like that time one of their reporters was trying to convince a trucker that illegal immigrants ripping up his truck and trying to stow on board to illegally cross into England was "A good thing" ? That's unbiased to you ?
The whole report reeks of apologism : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5FIsmquQqA
The BBC are definately left leaning and left-biased. Open borders, Diversity before Merit, Anti-conservatism. It's the same for Canada's CBC. The bias is apparent, and if you can't see it, you need to do yourself a favor and get some deprogramming.
"Not to mention all the idiots who use words like boxen."
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