Obama Takes On Donald Trump And Anti-Intellectualism At Rutgers Commencement

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Obama Takes On Donald Trump And Anti-Intellectualism At Rutgers Commencement

by Igor Bobic at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/barack-obama-trump-rutgers_us_5738b625e4b08f96c1836da4?utm_hp_ref=politics

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Though he avoided saying his name, nearly all of President Barack Obama’s commencement address at Rutgers University on Sunday was dedicated to presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump and his mix of anti-intellectualism and isolationism.

“In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue,” Obama told graduates at the New Jersey university. “It’s not cool to not know what you’re talking about. That’s not keeping it real, or telling it like it is. That’s not challenging political correctness. That’s just not knowing what you’re talking about.”

He added: “When our leaders express a disdain for facts, when they’re not held accountable for repeating falsehoods, and just making stuff up while actual experts are dismissed as elitist, then we’ve got a problem. The rejection of facts, the rejection of reason and science, that is the path to decline.”

As an example, Obama mentioned Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), who threw a snowball on the floor of the U.S. Senate last December in an attempt to disprove scientific consensus on man-made climate change.

“Climate change is not something subject to political spin. There is evidence,” he said, adding, “Imagine if your fifth-grade science teacher had seen that. He’d get a D!”




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1. “In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue,”

Especially when it is willful ignorance, and is mixed with arrogance.