Clint Eastwood Warns Political Correctness ‘Killing’ Country: ‘We’ve Lost Our Sense of Humor’

Breitbart ^ | 5-22-2017 | Jerome Hudson

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Hollywood screen legend Clint Eastwood sounded off on what he described as the scourge of political correctness in an impassioned speech this weekend at the Cannes Film Festival. While addressing a packed audience Sunday, the Oscar-winner said his seminal crime drama Dirty Harry could not have been made in today’s politically correct climate.

“A lot of people thought it was politically incorrect,’ Eastwood said of the 1971 film he starred in. “‘That was at the beginning of the era that we’re in now, where everybody thinks everyone’s politically correct.”

“We’re killing ourselves by doing that,” the 86-year-old star warned, declaring that “we’ve lost our sense of humour.”

Of course, this wasn’t the first time that Eastwood has warned of the dangers of political correctness.

In an interview last August with Esquire, Eastwood said then-candidate Donald Trump’s political success was due in part to his disregard for political correctness.

“He’s onto something, because secretly everybody’s getting tired of political correctness, kissing up,” the actor said, “That’s the kiss-ass generation we’re in right now. We’re really in a pussy generation. Everybody’s walking on eggshells.”

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Not something that the Cannes crowd wants to hear...They don't like our country.

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The entire movie about the Orangutan (Right Turn, Clyde) was politically incorrectly, by modern stupidity.

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[allendale]

To be politically correct is to be delusional.

[JBW1949]

People need to dump “politically correct” and take up my tagline....

[Louis Foxwell]

Marxism is delusional. PC is basic communist tactics. There is no humor under communism.

[Veto!]

“I’m Offended By Political Correctness” bumper stickers and lapel buttons are needed.

[JBW1949]

There you go...

[laplata]

“Marxism is delusional. PC is basic communist tactics. There is no humor under communism”.

Exactly. PC was developed by the Communists over a century ago for the purpose of ‘controlling the narrative’ because they couldn’t then, and never will, rely on the truth to advance their cause.

[\/\/ayne]

Yeah, Mr. Maaaaaveriiiiiiick.

[headstamp 2]

HEY! We’re the Black Widdas!

[tomkat]

That’s the kiss-ass generation we’re in right now. We’re really in a pussy generation

Amen³ !

[kaehurowing]

Certainly Treasure of the Sierra Madre wouldn’t have made it. Or Blazing Saddles. Or Charles Bronson’s Death Wish movies.

[MUDDOG]

Lose your laughs and you will lose your mind, in life unkind.

[Hugin]

We’re really in a pussy generation.

[Karl Spooner]

[Clearly Right]

No chuckles anymore I want them to turn black.

[justa-hairyape]

To be politically correct, is to be an empty chair. Boring, talentless and predictable.

[MayflowerMadam]

This is something Jerry Seinfeld mentioned a few years ago in some context — can’t recall what.

[MUDDOG]

No telling the aftermath.