I like where this guy’s head is at.
To be clear, I understand it is quite obvious he is trying to push every button he can, but I think that sort of thing has a place and time. And I would find an equivalent rant by a feminist about conservatives equally funny. Words don’t offend me–not insults anyway. Lies do make me mad.
I have actually wondered if it might be fun and USEFUL to have Politically Incorrect days, in which you have a room where people stand up and make the most politically incorrect speeches they can, in the midst of a diverse audience. Whites go off on blacks, blacks on whites, gays on straights, straights on gays, men on women, women on men, and every other area of social difference they can think of.
Think of a roast of Political Correctness.
I think we would find that words only hurt if we let them, and that it is actually liberating to be able to actually speak what you were thinking anyway.
I also think that it is obvious that PC speech codes make it HARDER to solve actual problems, because you can’t discuss them. 40% of inner city black kids drop out of school. This, when jobs are already hard to come by. How is it any wonder they are economic failures, who fail to parent the children they father, and thus create another generation of the same? Who is talking about this? Who is saying the politically incorrect thing that you can scarcely call someone “disadvantaged” who is not already making use of the advantages they DO have?
I do wonder if at some point these PC lunatics will push things so far, make things so ridiculous, that the whole thing blows up completely. We are already seeing some hint of this in the on-going popularity of Donald Trump. I think many people are tired of feeling compelled to ostracize and denounce people for thought crimes. We should not have to treat adults as hypersensitive children; and I think the demand is reasonable that people only be offended on their OWN behalf, and not that of others they don’t understand, and certainly can’t speak for.
This made me think of this Murphy Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GSk5RabXTk The part I like starts about 13 minutes in.