![]() ![]() It might be impossible to be funny without offending anyone at all, because jokes at their heart are about what is offensive. Modern jokes still have this component of what is inappropriate. But your use of the words “gay agenda” just told me loud and clear what your views are and where they came from. Name-calling isn’t going to bring us together. So you want the right to not conform to the gay agenda and not be called a bigot. ![]() I mean, was Bree Newsome being PC when she defied the law to take down the flag, when she smiled when she was arrested? Is even civil disobedience merely political correctness? The deeper question is, why are you so fierce in defending the right to use that word of all words, to fly that flag of all flags – and not at all concerned that black churches are burning again throughout the South? Well, you can, you have that right still, but you also have the right to be judged by the content of your speech. When people complain that they have to be PC, I think sometimes they’re just campaigning for their rights to be sexist, racist, heterosexist. In other words, the first uses of laughter might have been racist. That’s for sure not the only use for laughter in primates, but it’s a biggie. All the males square off with him and make this coughing noise that’s uncomfortably like laughter. Chimps, when a stranger comes into their territory, get up in his face in a line. In evolutionary terms, laughter is a signal that something is out of place or inappropriate. The happiest day of my life was when I read that the school was getting demolished and turned into a regional college. I got more than hurt, which was the point. The big kids, the ones who started shaving at 9, the all-star athletes who were the leads in school plays and who girls would actually talk to. Climbing that step-pyramid to meet our fates. The weakest kids in school, unpopular, friends only with one another. The asthmatic, underdeveloped, scrawny kids, the slow ones, the bed-wetters and the bullied. At PE time, the bigger, stronger boys played on the upper pitch like South American god-priests the rest of us played on the lower pitch, fifty feet below them.īut once a year the masters switched things up: The worst of us had to climb the stairs to the upper pitch and play against the best of them. There were enough boys to field four rugby teams. I was slow to get my growth and slower to have the most basic coordination. He might as well go on and say soccer is for sissies, too - why aren’t they earning their concussions the hard way, in full-on Gladiator-style football matches? Like, where you can’t strike out in softball and you don’t keep score in soccer. Why? Because they were raised in non-competitive environments. In this article, for example, Rock says he thinks the kids can’t handle edgy stuff. Older folks tend to think the young are coddled. When the issue is not censorship, then is this mostly an issue of changing manners? Is it PC to refrain from doing so, or is it merely just good manners?Īnd what’s the difference, anyway? Are you PC? Or just polite? It wouldn’t be PC to shout “Heil Hitler!” at a Holocaust museum. Isn’t that also pretty selfish, though – to never take into account the setting or the people in it? The ultimate in authenticity: failure to self-censor. Some people take pride in being “not PC.” I’m not PC. Now: Do you have a right to fly that Confederate flag? Or to not fly one just because doing so wouldn’t be politically correct? Racist and sexist jokes, opinions about people of faiths they hate.īeing politically incorrect seems to mean being shitty to other people. Usually when someone hates politically correct (PC) liberals, it seems to be because they have some very unpalatable ideas that are way past their sell-by date. Political correctness: Has it gone too far? He likes his new audience better, he says. The liberals routinely booed some material or just threw shade when he said controversial things. They were too liberal, he said, so he started recruiting conservatives to be in the crowd. On-campus censorship is a very real part of the problem, though.Īlong the same lines: Bill Maher recently noted on-air that he had to change the composition of his audience. Here's our rundown for Disney+ and Hulu next month.ANewDomain - Chris Rock won’t perform on college campuses because students are too stuffy. Part 1 ended on a major cliffhanger, and a synopsis promises that Part 2 finds Joe on a "rocky road to redemption" as "a new obsession starts to take hold."īelow is a list of all the content coming to Netflix in March. But as you might expect, things do not go as planned. Now a professor, he attempts to distance himself from his past obsessive behavior. The show continues to follow Joe, as he starts a new life in London. Another major release for Netflix next month will be You: Season 4 Part 2, coming March 9. ![]()
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