The politically correct culture was just denounced by...President Obama?

In an exit interview with NPR, President Barack Obama said things that some may find surprising.

Getting on the subject of political correctness, Obama actually spoke out against it, stating that it's lowered our political discourse.

From The Hill:

“If somebody says, 'You know what, I'm not sure affirmative action is the right way to solve racial problems in this country,’ and they're immediately accused of being racist, well, then I think you have a point,” Obama said when asked if he agrees with President-elect Donald Trump that political correctness has gone too far.

Obama said he's given the same advice to his daughters, Malia and Sasha, as they prepare to go off to college.

"My advice to progressives like myself, and this is advice I give my own daughters ... is don't go around just looking for insults," he said. "You're tough. If somebody says something you don't agree with, just engage them on their ideas.

"But you don't have to feel that somehow because you're a black woman that you're being assaulted."

Not sparing the right, however, Obama outlined how conservatives often use political correctness as a weapon as well, such as the war on Christmas.

"You'll hear somebody like a Rush Limbaugh, or other conservative commentators ... 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," he said.

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Obama has actually been critical of political correctness before. In fact, he noted during a speech in September that he doesn't believe college students need to be "coddled," and sequestered from outside views.