“If all you’re doing is casting stones, you’re probably not going to get that far. That’s easy to do.” — Barack Obama
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00:00This idea of purity and you're never compromised and you're always politically woke and all that stuff.
00:07You should get over that quickly.
00:09The world is messy. There are ambiguities.
00:16People who do really good stuff have flaws.
00:24People who you are fighting may love their kids.
00:31And, you know, share certain things with you.
00:36And I think that one danger I see among young people, particularly on college camps, is Malia and I talk about this.
00:43Yara goes to school with my daughter.
00:48But I do get a sense sometimes now among certain young people, and this is accelerated by social media,
00:53that there is this sense sometimes of the way of me making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people.
01:02And that's enough.
01:04Like if I tweet or hashtag about how you didn't do something right or used the wrong verb,
01:12then I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself.
01:16Because, man, you see how woke I was? I called you out.
01:20When I get on TV, watch my show, watch Grown-ish.
01:30You know, that's not activism.
01:35That's not bringing about change.
01:37If all you're doing is casting stones, you're probably not going to get that far.
01:46That's easy to do.