Posted on 07/15/2006 7:26:24 AM PDT by StACase
Many believe political correctness is good. It keeps us in line. It reminds us that almost all segments of society should be treated with dignity and respect. A joke at the expense of someone’s gender, race or ethnic background has no place in movies today.
Of course, there are those who disagree, who believe political correctness is wrong, who feel that it only creates resentment toward the offended parties. A PC world is a world of oppression, they say, where freedom of speech is allowed in theory, but not in practice.
Personally, I’m not sure how I feel. Ideally, I’d like to straddle the line between both so as not to offend anyone.
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All the Die Hards!!
"Love and Death" was funny if you ignored Woody Allen's whining. Some un-PC moments.
>> The only jabs at the right are when they gleefully blow up the Louvre and Pyramids in order to destroy phantom WMDs, <<
No, I'll own it. Many of us conservatives would love to blow up anything French.
Legal note to InterPol: THAT WAS A JOKE, DAMMIT!
A couple of more obscure candidates:
"Fighting Back" (with Tom Skerrit)
"Year of the Dragon" (with Mickey Rourke)
:You're right. And that's what's happening on this thread.
Hollywood wants to reframe the concept of "PC" so that it means racist or bigot or something negative rather than what it really means. What antiPC really means is "anti-liberal group think".
Liberal PC concepts are used to shut down the discussion of ideas.
There were things liberals decided couldn't be talked about - they weren't "correct" to bring up... Conservatives started challenging those concepts. And no - not being PC is NOT the same as being a racist or a bigot. Liberals want to take away our right to question them.
You're right in catching this SuzyQue - parts of this thread are being hijacked by people who want to make conservatives look like bigots. Trollish to say the least.
By the way: It was the ONLY funny Woody Allen movie. Although I did chuckle at parts of "Everything you always wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask," "Sleeper," etc. "Annie Hall" had lots of chuckles but they were evenly paced, all the same size and style, and the movie lacked any other value. Eventually evenly sized chuckles can actually be boring, even though the individual jokes may be funny. He hasn't elicted a chuckle since "Annie Hall," when he became convinced he was an artiste. After all, he beat out Star Wars for an academy award!
The right-wing equivalence would be to insist that all politicians who did not use the term, "freedom fries," were secretly French Socialists, or that those who said, "suicide bomber" instead of "homicide bomber" cared more about their buddies the terrorists than about the innocent victims.
You're good! And you totally "get it". Thanks for the comments.
Read post #99!
Read post #99!
I don't know that it's deliberate. I think we can all buy into a bit of the PC groupthink if it is something that hits us on a visceral, emotional level. That's why FR is so valuable in general and so dangerous to the PC crowd.
I've gotten to the point that when I read something that sounds sort of OK, but seems a bit off, I go straight to FR and read the comments. Invariably, someone will provide information that the original story didn't, or give a background that the original story didn't, place it into context, etc. Very powerful in dispelling propoganda and contemporary mythology.
This has inspired me to replace my tagline.
This is the second time this thread has been run - with the same bunch pushing to equate nonPC people with being racist. That's kind of trollish isn't it?
Dangus nailed it. Much better than I expressed it.
I also recall a scene in "Jumanji" which makes me think the PC police must have been asleep at the switch. The hunter Van Pelt (a bad guy, but still...), out of ammunition, goes to a gun store and drops a handful of gold coins on the counter. The clerk's reaction is along the lines of "Anything you say, sir".
Here's my top 10 non-PC movies:
Unforgiven - shows how powerless a community truely is when their right to bear arms and self defense is taken away.
Patton - shows how one of America's greatest generals was marginalized for slapping a malingering soldier, and for his outspoken hatred for the Soviet Union and communism.
South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut - no explanation needed.
Team America: World Police - shows the ridiculousness of leftism and "peace" at all costs.
The Hunt for Red October - (even though it stars lefty all-star Alec Baldwin) shows how the oppression and ideals of the Soviet Union could force even a highly respected Soviet nuclear submarine commander to defect.
We Were Soldiers - along with 'The Green Berets', shows how American soldiers in Vietnam were valiant heroes, not ruthless murderers.
Gettysburg - shows that the Confederacy was made up of honorable, liberty loving, warriors, not uneducated, backwoods hicks.
Heartbreak Ridge - see 'We Were Soldiers'
Executive Decision - shows that islamists do in fact commit terrorist acts and target civilians for murder, unlike the highly sanitized PC film version of 'The Sum of All Fears' which substituted eeevil right wingers in place of mooselimbs.
Red Dawn - no explanation needed.
Taking cover now.
It seems to.
Politically incorrect should include a truth that is not popular.
Some of these were funny in a gross out way, some were just gross and boring. None of them were politically incorrect IMHO.
I'm going to have to make my own list.
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