Posted on 06/08/2015 8:24:25 AM PDT by Borges
Jerry Seinfeld has ruled out playing university audiences because they are too politically correct – and he counts the entire younger generation in that.
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“They just want to use these words," he said. "‘That’s racist. That’s sexist. That’s prejudice.’ They don’t know what the [bleep] they’re talking about.”
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Oh my, when you have somebody like him or Mel Brooks calling out political correctness, you know how very divisive and ultimately self-contradictory it really is at heart.
Yes, something that most of us already knew.
Crying Wolf is wearing thing for some of us.
There is NO room for humor or laughter in political correctness. There is always someone ‘waiting to be offended’. To the left, there is a right in not being offended. Great acting in being offended is a plus.
Chris Rock made the same change, no more University venues.
The places in our country that used to be the very most free are now the least free.
They are full of people who genuinely want to feel angry.
I do not know Mr. Seinfeld's politics, but I do recognize his common sense.
Ironic, because the college circuit used to be the bread and butter for “edgy” and provocative comics. Now they probably can’t get away with any of that unless they just bash conservatives and Christians and that would get pretty boring for anyone after the first 15 minutes.
Have you ever heard of a North Korean comedian..?
Me either.
But now I now that I think about it, I get this eerie feeling that that is where we are headed.
Says the guy who made famous the line; “Not that there’s anything wrong with that”.
We just spoke with a public high school teacher about this the other evening. She said that the kids throw the word “racist” around and use it in the wrong context. They refuse to think it through. Example: “One kid pointed out that another was white and Jewish. Another kids said, ‘that’s racist.’ The teacher pointed out that it is not racism to correctly identify someone without putting them down. The kid was truly white and truly Jewish, and nothing racist was intended by saying so, in the situation where it was brought up. The kids didn’t get it. It’s become a meaningless insult word and the kids just want to use it that way, without further thought.
I think it was Glenn Beck, during the 2010 midterms, that said that "taking offense" had become a growth industry in the USA.
Imagine if Sam Kinnison were alive. He’d be arrested doing his act on a college campus!!! The only part of his act that would be okay now days is when he made fun of Christians and religion. The rest of his act would be “OFFENSIVE”!!
Imagine if Sam Kinnison were alive. He’d be arrested doing his act on a college campus!!! The only part of his act that would be okay now days is when he made fun of Christians and religion. The rest of his act would be “OFFENSIVE”!!
How many people here believe that you could film Blazing Saddles today..?
I can think of very many other examples, some much more recent.
What's wrong with that?
Exactly.
Lock all these poor sensitive students in a room and make them listen to Don Rickles night club act in his prime, around 1968.
Ping
Didn’t you get that joke?
The fact that he HAD to say “not that there’s anything wrong with that” every time he mentioned gay people was itself mocking them for being so thin-skinned.
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