Barack Obama laid into young people being 'politically woke' and 'as judgmental as possible' in a speech about call-out culture

"I do get a sense sometimes now among certain young people, and this is accelerated by social media, that the way of me making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people and that's enough," Obama said. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Former President Barack Obama derided "call-out culture" in a speech at the Obama Foundation summit on Tuesday, saying achieving real change is more complex than being "as judgmental as possible." "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 a crowd in Chicago. "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'." People who you are fighting may love their kids and, you know, share certain things with you," the 44th US president said. Republicans were accused of trying to trick an impeachment witness into naming the whistleblower, prompting a shouting match with Democrats The explosive truth about the link between Chinese fireworks and India’s dim Diwali Boris Johnson's Brexit deal will make every British person £1,100 a year poorer