Normally I do everything I can to ignore anything someone from Hollywood has to say concerning just about anything. But I think Clint Eastwood is onto something here.
He is quoted today as saying that political correctness has made society humorless. He says,
People have lost their sense of humour. In former times we constantly made jokes about different races. You can only tell them today with one hand over your mouth or you will be insulted as a racist.
It really is true. You can’t say anything that even resembles something that has to do with someone’s nationality or race without being labeled a bigot or racist. It’s ridiculous. Everyone is so stinkin’ sensitive. Furthermore, it’s ok for people to make fun of white people, particularly white Christian men, but everyone else is hands off.
I know there is a history to a lot of racial slurs. I’m not advocating their use. But we’ve gone so far the other direction that everyone is just too uptight anymore. Perhaps I should become a dentist, convert to Catholicism, then to Judaism, and move to Poland. Then I would have total joke-telling immunity….
LOL…I love the last part of this. You are a raving anti-dentite. Also a very true post. Political correctness really hurts this country..and in many more ways than hindering the freedom of speech. You can’t cut Medicaid spending or you hate old people. You can reform wellfare or you hate the poor. You can’t define marriage in the traditional sense or you hate homosexuals. And you can’t be pro business or you hate the environment. We’re so worried about offending people that we can’t do anything to actually help us get out of the mess we’re in.