That was no joke with Carlin, it was all about how the language gets softened over time, and has all the humanity sucked out of it. He was right on there. Some things I vehemently disagreed with Carlin on, but he was right on, a lot of the time.
A good amount of Carlin’s later work were rants about the decrease of basic common sense. If he were alive today, he would be ripping snowflakes to pieces.