But from Obama's own perspective, which sees America's institutions and structure as in need of reform, not revolution
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Doing anything to further undermine public confidence in institutions is profoundly unwise. Doesn't matter if Bill Clinton did it.
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We really and truly gotta get past the "But THEY did it!!" school of anti-bigotry.
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It's like "and??? THEY are you oppressor. THEY made this world that causes you and yours to suffer. Why should you act like them?"
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In fact, if ANYONE should resist that argument, its the revolutionary crowd,
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If your idea of revolution is for the oppressed to have the opportunity to be as bad as their oppressors, you can keep. It.
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If, however, your idea of revolution is to make a new system to replace the shitty one your oppressors created, well then...
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"But my oppressor did it toooo!" Is not an acceptable or logical or valid or even fucking interesting argument to make.
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Who GIVES a fuck if the oppressor did it? Your job is to bring into being a new world that does not look like that of your oppressor.
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In any case, from both a revolutionary perspective and a reformist/center-left perspective, Obama giving up the multinational speaking gigs
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Is the right thing to do, and fuck the Bushes and the Clintons and Reagan and whoever else decided to the do the wrong thing.
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