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Jerry Seinfeld: Politically correct students 'don't know what they're talking about'
The Daily Telegraph ^ | 6/8/2015 | Kat Brown

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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KEYWORDS: achillwind; orwelliannightmare; politicallycorrect; thoughtcrime
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To: Responsibility2nd

Says the guy who made famous the line; “Not that there’s anything wrong with that”.

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Thus implying that there really is something not quite right about it, if the line is taken in context the way it was said on the show.


21 posted on 06/08/2015 8:38:19 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: gaijin

Blazing Saddles? Hell, you could not even make The Bob Newhart Show today. All of the advocacy groups for various mental illnesses would be jumping right down your throat.


22 posted on 06/08/2015 8:42:34 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Borges

Seinfeld can be hilarious but it can also be boring at times.

It was about as PC as any other show but maybe not as brutal as some.

There was a comedian on an episode which was repeated recently, who I went to college with. We both went on a field trip to Mobile, Alabama and rode in the same car. He cracked jokes, many of them very un PC all the way there and back.

We even played a pretty good trick on our professor. His name is Barry Diamond. I haven’t really heard much of him.


23 posted on 06/08/2015 8:44:30 AM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: Borges

Airplane: “Exuse me, stewardess - I am fluent in jive...”

Could you film that today?


24 posted on 06/08/2015 8:46:14 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I watched “Clueless” a week or so ago, and noted a scene in there where the (clueless) lead character and her friend had to have it pointed out that her latest crush was gay. This was done (by a black character no doubt for a measure of insulation) who commented along the following lines:


Murray: Your man Christian is a cake boy!

Cher and Dionne: (together) A what?

Murray: He’s a disco-dancing, Oscar Wilde-reading, Streisand ticket-holding friend of Dorothy, know what I’m saying?


No WAY that would get produced now.


25 posted on 06/08/2015 8:49:41 AM PDT by freedomlover
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To: yarddog

I used to know a Hispanic that could crack you up with Mexican jokes all day long.

“What do you have when you put six Mexicans in a swimming pool?”

“Bean dip!”

That kind of jokes. He really infuriated his neighbors.


26 posted on 06/08/2015 8:51:31 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Buckeye McFrog

About 3 weeks ago I bought the complete Sanford and Sons series collection. It could never be made today.
I know Redd Fox was raunchy in his lounge shows but in Sanford he is genius.


27 posted on 06/08/2015 8:51:42 AM PDT by Romans Nine
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“Blazing Saddles? Hell, you could not even make The Bob Newhart Show today. All of the advocacy groups for various mental illnesses would be jumping right down your throat.”

My sentiments exactly. Over the weekend, I was at my parents’ and the local PBS station in Watertown was having it’s semi annual membership drive and wheeling out the same mindless drivel of Daniel O’Donnell and Lawrence Welk. It seems that is the only stuff they will show, as my idea of PBS doing a service like dusting off the videotapes and film cans of original programs not seen in many, many years would not be a realistic idea. My parents (as liberal as they are) do remind me on occasions like these that Norman Lear originals or “Till Death Us Do Part” or NBC variety programs from the late 1950s and early 60s in colour or comedians like Mel Brooks or Don Rickles (as mentioned by someone else here) would be too politically incorrect or controversial to be shown today in their original forms.

You even have Gary Butthead of the NHL cracking down on the vintage hockey games and fight footage trade, as he and his minions want us to just watch the Eurotrash that is in vogue today.


28 posted on 06/08/2015 8:53:45 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
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To: Starstruck

It was used to make sure he and George were not attacked for not being queer. It is a euphemism for “I stand for nothing.”


29 posted on 06/08/2015 8:54:31 AM PDT by Portcall24
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To: gaijin

H
“How many people here believe that you could film Blazing Saddles today..?”

“The Sheriff is a ......!” The Sheriff is a ......!”

Yep.


30 posted on 06/08/2015 8:54:51 AM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: married21

For me it is just a complete misuse of the word. I openly admit I am biased. I am biased against A holes no matter their color or point of national origin.


31 posted on 06/08/2015 8:56:06 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna

Sounds like Jerry has reservations.


32 posted on 06/08/2015 8:56:20 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: freedomlover

I miss being a kid in the 90’s, there was none of this PC BS back then, I wonder why now.


33 posted on 06/08/2015 8:57:53 AM PDT by the_individual2014
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To: Gamecock
Ping

I think that word is offensive to Chinese delivery boys.

34 posted on 06/08/2015 8:58:54 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Boogieman

Exactly. Every time they said, and they said it alot, they were poling fun at the PC stupidity of it all. That the mere statement “I’m not gay” would need a half-apology to go along with it.


35 posted on 06/08/2015 8:59:05 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: the_individual2014

There was PC in the 1990s, but it was no where near the level of today.


36 posted on 06/08/2015 8:59:34 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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You probably would not be even able to make a program like “Bewitched” today. What with Elizabeth Montgomery and her legs and lovely blonde looks? That program would be now deemed very sexist.


37 posted on 06/08/2015 9:00:11 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
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To: Larry Lucido
Luckily, he had a good lawyer.


38 posted on 06/08/2015 9:01:59 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: Army Air Corps

IMHO this is why shows like South Park are popular. Nothing is sacred.

The character “Token” is a perfect example.


39 posted on 06/08/2015 9:02:44 AM PDT by freedomlover
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To: OttawaFreeper
"You probably would not be even able to make a program like “Bewitched” today. What with Elizabeth Montgomery and her legs and lovely blonde looks? That program would be now deemed very sexist."

Or how about ...

Yes, Master ..."

40 posted on 06/08/2015 9:03:09 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Well, I yelled "FIRE!" because no one would save me if I yelled "CHOCOLATE!")
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