White male comedian on SJW campus

vCRASHv · 2016-06-02T13:16:14+00:00

This made me laugh, and made me cry. Society is taking a dark turn for the worse.

2016-06-02T14:13:25+00:00

When I was a kid back in the late 1960s and 1970s, the Sixties People, citing martyrs like Lenny Bruce, undermined The Establishment using jokes and satire. Today, the Sixties People are The Establishment and they don’t much like young people using jokes and satire because it could get out of control and undermine them.

That’s Not Funny! Today’s college students can’t seem to take a joke.

O, Utopia. Why must your sweet governance always turn so quickly from the Edenic to the Stalinist? The college revolutions of the 1960s—the ones that gave rise to the social-justice warriors of today’s campuses—were fueled by free speech. But once you’ve won a culture war, free speech is a nuisance, and “eliminating” language becomes a necessity.

As I listened to the kids hash out whom to invite, it became clear that to get work, a comic had to be at once funny—genuinely funny—and also deeply respectful of a particular set of beliefs. These beliefs included, but were in no way limited to, the following: women, as a group, should never be made to feel uncomfortable; people whose sexual orientation falls beyond the spectrum of heterosexuality must be reassured of their special value; racial injustice is best addressed in tones of bitter anguish or inspirational calls to action; Muslims are friendly helpers whom we should cherish; and belonging to any potentially “marginalized” community involves a crippling hypersensitivity that must always be respected.

Title	White male comedian on SJW campus
Author	baserace
Upvotes	63
Comments	2
Date	June 2, 2016 6:29 AM UTC (10 years ago)
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