Posted on 06/11/2015 8:15:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The culture of political correctness has gotten so bad at college campuses that even bleeding heart liberal comics like Jerry Seinfeld feel out of place. The venerable comedian told ESPN’s Colin Cowherd last week that he avoids performing on college campuses, and has been advised by those who have to stay away. From Entertainment Tonight:
Seinfeld says teens and college-aged kids don’t understand what it means to throw around certain politically-correct terms. “They just want to use these words: ‘That’s racist;’ ‘That’s sexist;’ ‘That’s prejudice,’” he said. “They don’t know what the hell they’re talking about.”
Tuesday, the Huffington Post published an open letter from a self-identified “‘politically correct’ college student” which proved Seinfeld’s point. San Diego State University pupil Anthony Berteaux took issue with Seinfeld’s comments, even as he demonstrated their accuracy.
According to Berteaux, it’s not that college students in our “progressive culture” expect comics to be unoffensive. They simply expect comics to “offend the right people.” Berteaux writes:
… yes, Mr. Seinfeld, we college students are politically correct. We will call out sexism and racism if we hear it. But if you’re going to come to my college and perform in front of me, be prepared to write up a set that doesn’t just offend me, but has something to say.
Speaking on behalf of his peers, Berteax commands Seinfeld to “use the medium as a way to create social commentary and dialogue.” He evokes routines from Amy Schumer and Louis C.K. which, to his mind, meet this critical threshold. The comic’s job, he says, is to make people think about important social issues.
Seinfeld, by contrast, seems to think that his job is to make people laugh. Who can blame the performer for wanting to avoid a humorless crowd that takes something like comedy so seriously?
When Jerry starts mocking them in routines and other comedians join him, I’ll believe they GAF about stopping PCBS.
Mockery works. Always.
That would be Christians, conservatives and anyone else who disagrees with them.
“The comic’s job, he says, is to make people think about important social issues.”
Wow, this kid really needs to get laid.
I mentioned this on earlier thread concerning this twit and the letter he wrote to Jerry. To think back in my day as a university student in the early 90s, I liked going to working men’s types of pubs and listened to country music (while many of my peers were spaced out on grunge and Led Zeppelin). I did not really consider myself a conservative until a little after my days as a student, but it still would have never occurred to me to have that kid’s outlook on things (and to be honest after a while in my university days I was becoming a great deal sensitive toward the antics of the politically correct forces on campus trying to control things at that time even).
Yeah, I was thinkin’ if Seinfeld was crackin’ on Christians and Conservitives this kid would be laughin’ his azz off.
So PC.
I used to watch a Youtube show about the engineering side of music. It made it to nearly 100 shows before they started bringing on people pushing the ‘responsibility’ of people behind the scenes of music to push SJW crap.
Too bad. It used to be worth watching.
A common failing amongst the under-educated young is the lack of perspective and the absence of self-criticism. While it is normal for age to add perspective that moderates the absolutism that tinges youthful fanaticism, it is REAL education’s job to give the jump-start to that process.
Of course, in today’s academia, it is the lack of REAL education in the non-physical sciences that this letter from young Mr Berteaux demonstrates. The post high school education for the majority of schools has been malignantly influenced by biases from liberal academics and their cohorts in government. Pseudo-scholar Berteaux has no desire for anything that has the slightest chance of opening his mind or disturbing his conformity. What a waste!
According to the PC crowd comedy is not a laughing matter.
Young people have ALWAYS thought they know everything. I certainly did. I was like an orthodox libertarian who thought public parks were a violation of natural law.
It's broader than being personally offended. Postmodernist Libtards use political correctness, identity politics, and shaming and producing guilt in people as a way to silence opponents and those who belong to the oppressive class.
it’s an ideology that says “offending people is the greatest crime”. They have such sheltered lives that they don’t know what an actual crime is.
But those "unhip" comedians were really funny. They just told jokes and dispensed with the "socially relevant" material.
Amy Schumer and Louis KC are good examples of smut comics who aren’t funny.
Yes, that caught my eye. Offend the right people.
How does that saying go? ...a liberal is only a conservative who hasn’t been victimized yet.
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