UPDATED - Obama: For The Right, Political Correctness Is A 'Sense Of Victimization'

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Source: Talking Points Memo

By MATT SHUHAM Published DECEMBER 19, 2016, 10:31 AM EDT

President Barack Obama said in an interview aired Monday that many voters who rallied around President-elect Donald Trumps criticisms of political correctness have their very own version of PC culture.

[link:http://www.npr.org/2016/12/19/504998487/transcript-and-video-nprs-exit-interview-with-president-obamaSpeaking to NPRs Steve Inskeep], Obama acknowledged said there was one narrow definition of political correctness, which he characterized as as a hypersensitivity that ends up resulting in people not being able to express their opinions.

Still, he said, that kind of political sensitivity isn't the exclusive territory of liberals.

The irony in this debate is often-times you'll hear somebody like a Rush Limbaugh, or other conservative commentators, or you know, radio shock jocks, or some conservative politicians, who are very quick to jump on any evidence of progressives being 'politically correct,' but who are constantly aggrieved and hypersensitive about the things they care about and are continually feeding this sense of victimization, and that they are being subject to reverse discrimination, he said.

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UPDATED. More from the NPR interview

Obama Says Democrats Lost By Not Showing Up

December 19, 2016By Taegan Goddard

President Obama told NPR that Democrats suffered stinging electoral losses in last month’s vote because they failed to campaign in hard-hit rural areas.

Said Obama: “You’ve got a situation where they’re not only entire states but also big chunks of states where, if we’re not showing up, if we’re not in there making an argument, then we’re going to lose. And we can lose badly, and that’s what happened in this election.”

He added: “There are clearly failures on our part to give people in rural areas or in exurban areas a sense day-to-day that we’re fighting for them or connected to them. Part of the reason it’s important to show up…is because it then builds trust and it gives you a better sense of how should you talk about issues in a way that feel salient and feel meaningful to people.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2016/12/19/obama-says-democrats-lost-not-showing/