Posted on 06/12/2015 12:28:37 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
How Seinfeld became a bad joke: The threat of a hyper-vigilant left-wing outrage machine has been greatly exaggerated
Jerry Seinfeld is the latest brave middle-aged white man to weigh in on the “creepy” ascendance of humorless p.c. SJW anti-free-speech scolds. We know the drill now–we’ve heard it from comedians like Seinfeld and Patton Oswalt and, to a lesser degree, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock. We’ve heard it packaged in a different format from Very Serious media commentators like Jonathan Chait, Laura Kipnis and, most recently, an anonymous white male adjunct professor whose left-wing students “terrify” him.
It’s a familiar, tired drill. Point to instances of creeping overreaction by angry left-wing young people in the classroom, at protests and especially on Tumblr or Twitter. Portray these forces as a terrifying, swelling horde of enforcers with the power to totally destroy the lives of good old hardworking members of the chattering class like yourself. Talk about how this army of Social Justice Stormtroopers has successfully create a stifling Orwellian monoculture, especially on the Internet, where all of us live in constant fear of saying anything the least bit “offensive” lest our lives be ruined and as a result all online discourse has been stripped down to the level of catchphrase-spewing party apparatchiks seeking to avoid Stalinist purges.
This is clearly an extremely compelling narrative when it comes to a lot of people’s personal fears, because it’s a narrative they spin out of comparatively little evidence. It’s not that there’s no such thing as a left-wing witch hunt or that people haven’t been harmed by them — it’s that, for something that’s so scary that it warrants trend piece after trend piece on a biweekly basis, it seems pretty hard for these pundits to come up with actual examples of harm to themselves.
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> It’s like reading an incomprehensible stream-
> of-consciousness rant citing people, places, and events that
> nobody has ever heard of !
Well stated and bears repeating!
> 61 is middle-aged?
60 is the new 40.
A lot of kids don’t even move out of their parents’ house until their in their 30s.
We’re thinking we’ll have to retire and sell out before some of our adult kids get the hint.
Tor used to be my gold standard. Glad my reading got more selective.
I wonder what Ghramm Masterton is up to these days/on what publisher. No way he’d ever survive on a PC imprint now.
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
It’s interesting that the post just after this one is about a gay hotel owner being kicked out of a gay bar just for talking to someone who doesn’t support gay marriage.
It's a cult.
It's a cult.
THAT is the only answer these nutcases should get to any word leaving their mouths. Ever.
Yup. Thats exactly what it is. The cult of liberalism in full glory.
“oh shut the f**k up” should be the standard response to this sort of nonsense. It’s more on their level than Breitbart’s “so what?”
Obviously Seinfeld is on target, which explailns why Salon had to go to great lengths to set up a straw man argument and destory to deflect the incoming fire.
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