A Spectre is haunting comedy...

[David Casseres]

My only quibble is about the term "political correctness." It was
appropriated from the old-fashioned communists, who used it very literally
to criticize narratives that deviated from the party line, by that noisy
little asshole Dinesh D'Souza to apply to anyone who criticized him for his
out-and-out racism. I hang out around political discussions where it is
used entirely in D'Souza's sense, and one of my lines is "Careful! Don't
you know that every time you rant about Political Correctness, your IQ
drops 10%? Can you afford that?"

I would not say that to you because you obviously don't mean it that way,
but I'm an advocate of quarantining that expression. People who attack
comedy for its frankness, or for the way it makes offensive material into,
well, material for something else, are guilty of something other than PC…
what would I call it? Um, moral bullying, maybe? Squareness? There was a
time when "square" really conveyed the whole thing.

Apart from that quibble, I wholly agree with you.

On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 11:46 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I wrote this for my blog a couple days ago.
>
> I realize it may rankle some here in terms of its implications, but I
> would really appreciate feedback from a group of people whom I am pretty
> much certain are, for the most part, a lot smarter than I am.
>
> So, by all means... critique away!
>
> Here's the link:
>
>
> http://dailydirtdiaspora.blogspot.ca/2015/07/thats-not-funny-manufactured-crisis-of.html
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
> Mark T. aka Jerky LeBoeuf
>
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