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the revolution,” she said. “They’re pretty much always on the right
Pander much, Sarah? Guess she didn’t hear about that racist frat song thing…Must have been out shopping for that nostalgie de la boue, pre-holed top.
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It is not so much the older comedians I worry about. How many college students are just dying to go see Leno?
It is the faculty and other students who now must wade thru a minefield of “trigger warnings” and “microagressions.”
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I think Obama is so completely spot on with this campus PC trend:
I’ve heard some college campuses where they don’t want to have a guest speaker who is too conservative or they don’t want to read a book if it has language that is offensive to African-Americans or somehow sends a demeaning signal towards women. I gotta tell you, I don’t agree with that either. I don’t agree that you, when you become students at colleges, have to be coddled and protected from different points of view.
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Yea I have to agree with you I may just be old now but there’s definitely a difference between not using the word “gay” or even “retarded” and not being able to say “crazy” because it’s an ableist slur or not being able to say “futbol” instead of soccer because I’m white.
There is such a thing as taking it too far and just because a person is outraged or offended doesn’t automatically make them right.
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Listen to the interview before commenting. The headline in misleading as to what she is saying. There is also a lot of editing of this clip to make it sound like she is saying something she is not.
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I don’t know if the issue is political correctness (which is sort of an emotionally loaded phrase) or just realizing that as you get older societal conventions are not necessarily what they were when you were 20, so in order to avoid being taken the wrong way, it’s not that hard to adapt to the current norms
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She’s 45.
Nice lecture of “old people” there.
Got any more work in commercials lately?
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I think she makes a good point. Comedians who whine about “PC” show a lot of insensitivity. Yes, I agree that comedy should be sharp and uncomfortable sometimes. But I also think that college students are, as Sarah says, looking to define a new set of norms for a more sensitive and empathetic society. Sure, maybe PC veers too much in one direction sometimes. It’s an over-correction that will settle when more progress has been made toward diversity of all kinds. But those who complain the most about “PC” (especially non-comedians) are using it as an excuse to remain tone-deaf to the views and experiences of others.
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In 1935, the Oxford Union (yes, THAT Oxford) passed a resolution that it’s members should not die for King and country. A few years later, those same young men were at Dunkirk, flying Spitfires and Hurricanes and serving on warships in the North Atlantic.
Youth always thinks it has all the answers. But that doesn’t make it so.
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Agist remarks from someone who wants to be PC. Interesting.
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Yeah, I agree. Moreover, some comedians use insult and vulgarity as substitutes for wit. It’s pointless, and not very funny.
Not that playing on stereotypes and a well-placed expletive can’t add a little edginess to the humor…but I’m more entertained by the creativity behind the humor, not the shock value. Howard Stern might be popular and that’s fine, but personally I find him uninteresting and gratuitous.
And I’m not being politically correct, I’m just being a stupid fucking Polack. See? Not very funny.
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Ageist #%&!!
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Exactly. Discomfort is core to a lot of good humor, but, just singling out some group and demeaning it is lazy and outdated.
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9 out 10 people I hear that complain about political correctness are fringe conservatives (and most south of middle age). I think it has very little to do with age.
Poor Sarah can’t even afford clothes. Look at the terrible condition of her shirt.
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Perhaps this ageist twit should focus on actually developing some material and a comedy set instead of pontificating like a moron.
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How dare you write that without even a trigger warning! I swear, I must be coming down with a case of the vapors! Cecil, fetch my fainting couch!
This: "Sarah Silverman: Being Put Off By Political Correctness Is ‘A Sign Of Being Old’ " is highly misleading and she isn’t making that claimm according to the title of the article.
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For much more than King and country, I would say.
True, but their willingness to accept change makes it easier for cultures to progress in directions that they need to go.
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