Political Correctness next victim: Comedy. Towards a Orwellian nightmare?
John Cleese, co-founder of Monty Python, actor and comedian, who most would probably recognize from the below picture points out how illiberal the Western world is becoming, starting from US colleges.
http://bigthink.com/videos/john-clee...al-correctness
John Cleese: I'm offended every day. For example, the British newspapers every day offend me with their laziness, their nastiness, and their inaccuracy, but I'm not going to expect someone to stop that happening; I just simply speak out about it. Sometimes when people are offended they want — you can just come in and say, "Right, stop that." to whoever it is offending them. And, of course, as a former chairman of the BBC one said, "There are some people who I would wish to offend." And I think there's truth in that too. So the idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely do not subscribe to. And a fellow who I helped write two books about psychology and psychiatry was a renowned psychiatrist in London called Robin Skynner said something very interesting to me. He said, "If people can't control their own emotions, then they have to start trying to control other people's behavior." And when you're around super-sensitive people, you cannot relax and be spontaneous because you have no idea what's going to upset them next. And that's why I've been warned recently don't to go to most university campuses because the political correctness has been taken from being a good idea, which is let's not be mean in particular to people who are not able to look after themselves very well — that's a good idea — to the point where any kind of criticism or any individual or group could be labeled cruel.
And the whole point about humor, the whole point about comedy, and believe you me I thought about this, is that all comedy is critical. Even if you make a very inclusive joke like how would you make God laugh? Answer: Tell him your plans. Now that's about the human condition; it's not excluding anyone. It's saying we all have all these plans, which probably won't come and isn't it funny how we still believe they're going to happen. So that's a very inclusive joke. It's still critical. All humor is critical. If you start to say, "We mustn't; we mustn't criticize or offend them," then humor is gone. With humor goes a sense of proportion. And then as far as I'm concerned, you're living in 1984.
John Cleese is no longer going to perform in colleges because it might upset so called ''social justice movements'' and their causes.
He had already stopped working with another channel of political correctness, that is BBC.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/...BBC-again.html
A decade ago, we were debating on these forums about censoring cartoons about Mohammed, because someone might get offended. Political correctness won that battle, South Park was censored, several other media adopted censorship to avoid upsetting Muslim communities. It was a dangerous precedent.
Year 2015, social justice warriors that infest US colleges start demanding ''safe spaces'' from anything that offends their precious feelings.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-in-our-faces/
Apparently even honoring Woodrow Wilson offends students feelings in Priceton.
Yale and University of Minnesota Students went even further starting hunger strikes to have ''safe spaces''.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed...11-column.html
Truth be told, even when commenting the TWC's Mudpit, I have seen people complaining that they find people's different views ''offensive''.
And this is exactly what people arguing against political correctness predicted.
First it was just Mohammad and the Muslims, then came ''fat shaming'', then ''transphobia'' and the insanity continues as social justice warriors start eating themselves, banning ''The Vagina Monologues'' because it might offend people who identify as female but do not have a vagina.
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6202
Not feminist enough.
Who is to blame for the perversion of liberal ideas and their suicide/assisted-murder?
A liberal US college professor for once accepted his responsibilities.
http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/...ofessor-afraid
PC obviously affects us in other ways, as seen with the initial attempts to cover up the NYE sex harassment cases perpetrated by refugees by the German police and mainstream media. Reporting facts is now racist or sexist. Statistics too.
Let's start with the death toll now:
X Freedom of speech
X Freedom of press
X Comedy
Make your prediction, if the thread and the forums survive, I'll come back to the thread in 5-10 years and see who's correct. What is the next victim of Political Correctness and its new totalitarian incarnation, Social Justice?
Considering that the youth is obviously the future, how illiberal do you think the West is going to be when those people take over?
Those who denounced the problem a decade ago were branded as ''reactionary''. However, as more people from all fields denounced it, it is getting worse.
Are you ready for a 1984 Western society where anything, fact, opinion, joke that might paint someone in a negative light and thus offend him will be censored?
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liberal left does, the more it is discredited in the eyes of general population, which will cause an inevitable political change. I hope they'll push their agenda more in all forms of social life, to annoy the crap out of as many people as possible. 
Originally Posted by Ferrets54
