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.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
The comedian spoke to ESPN Radio host Colin Cowherd for an episode of "The Herd with Colin Cowherd" to promote the latest season of "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee," and the two talked about political correctness and comedy. Cowherd commented how comedians like Chris Rock and Larry the Cable Guy won't perform at college campuses for this very reason.
"I hear that all the time," Seinfeld said. "I don't play colleges, but I hear a lot of people tell me, 'Don't go near colleges. They're so PC.' I'll give you an example: My daughter's 14. My wife says to her, 'Well, you know, in the next couple years, I think maybe you’re going to want to be hanging around the city more on the weekends, so you can see boys.' You know what my daughter says? She says, ‘That’s sexist.’ They just want to use these words: 'That’s racist'; 'That’s sexist'; 'That’s prejudice.' They don’t know what they’re talking about.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/08/jerry-seinfeld-college-politically-correct-racism-sexism_n_7534978.html
Well, that was a fire hose of idiomatic vomit.
And the destructionist that wrote that article proved Mr. Seinfeld absolutely correct.
Btw, Arthur Chu has been neck deep on the SJW stormtrooper side of things re: the Sad Puppies campaign and GamersGate.
Chu bites.
One thing that I've noticed is a huge increase in posts referencing articles from Salon, and it's really perplexing trying to figure out what in heck many of the Salon writers are trying to say in these articles.
None of them make any sense. It's like reading an incomprehensible stream-of-conciousness rant citing people, places, and events that nobody has ever heard of !
Yes, I know that this is the manner in which many lefties 'debate', but it surely boggles the mind how any of them can comprehend what the other is saying ....
Eeenywees, that's my take on it, and dammitJIM I'm sticking to it :)
Peace & Love,
Mr. Moonlight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXDHjwaUtPI
Jerry Seinfeld Tells Seth Meyers He Did Not Want to Be on ‘Late Night’
Comedian jokes about trivial talk show procedure, talks “creepy” political correctness in comedy
http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/videos/jerry-seinfeld-tells-seth-meyers-he-did-not-want-to-be-on-late-night-20150610
Jerry Seinfeld Caught By The Sensitivity Police - Why It’s B.......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPKDQI1mLGw
He protests just a little too much.
Looks like Chu hates Jooz...
I thought about "Sad Puppies" when I read this:
"...it seems pretty hard for these pundits to come up with actual examples of harm to themselves."
Yes. It’s fascinating. The amount that is generated - the endless, angry pieces. I find them to be a clear window on what we’re up against (their fears, their delusions, their brainwashed ignorant worldviews). A lot of this has been absorbed by several generations now (they’ve been “educated” don’t you know) and we need to take a long look at what they’re saying, thinking, doing.
The left has moved so far left that people who were liberals a decade ago are now right-wing bigots. lol.
But we are the extremists... lol
bump
Tor Books is so SJW their new sales strategy is to call their own authors and customers neo-nazi’s and all that.
lol
That should be good for business.
61 is middle-aged?
Yes
I read the article and my eyes crossed...I hate trying to read shit like this, makes me dizzy. In the end it’s WTF did he just say
30 years ago when I was only eighteen years old I was a liberal it took me going to college and seeing the group think that was going on to make me conservative. I am very thankful that I had a conservative poly-scie teacher for my intro to politics class. he was a retired CIA agent. in class he predicted the Orwellian path that liberalism is going down. when ever more liberal students contradicted what he was teaching in his class he would refer to George Orwell’s Animal Farm
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