They likely wouldn’t let him make The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, History of the World Part I, Spaceballs, or Robin Hood Men In Tights.
In the final analysis, political correctness is like any other form of fanaticism, precisely because it has an absence of humor. Or really, an inability to laugh.
During the HUAC investigations, one method the investigators used to determine if someone was a fanatical communist was simply to tell a joke. The fanatic would just stare at them, and if pressed, either say that the joke was not funny, or force laughter.
The reason is that the fanatic, of whatever stripe, has a very brittle, closed idea about what the world is. For most people, laughter is an effective defense mechanism against the irrational, but the fanatic just regards it as irrelevant. It cannot fit their mental pattern, so it is just disregarded.
In the early 1970’s an American comedian was permitted to visit closed China shortly after its cultural revolution, to give a stand up comedy routine before some of its elite. But they insisted that all his jokes had to be approved ahead of time.
He decided the most innocuous joke he had was about a cow, so he told it to the political officer in charge of approval. The officer just sat there, stone faced, until the joke was over, then roundly criticized it, for *its* criticism of “one of the people’s cows, that dedicates its life, its milk, and eventually its meat to the cause of the peoples’ revolution!”
Thinking quickly, the comedian then told a bad political joke he had heard about president Nixon. The political officer approved it, after forcing himself to laugh for the better part of a minute, while the comedian sat uncomfortably.
So his entire comedy routine in China was political criticism of American leaders, and he described the wooden and forced laughter of the audiences to be creepy.
This is what life is like under a fanatical regime. So when you consider political correctness, remember that its real purpose has nothing to do with offending others, but that such people *want* a rigidly conforming society that is forced to follow their rules.
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That sounds similar to the saying that you can tell who your masters are by who you are allowed to criticize. And it also sounds like you can tell who your masters are by who you are not allowed to make fun of. Which is basically the same thing as outright criticism.
Hate to say it, but I’m afraid we’re headed in that direction.