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Jon Stewart On Political Correctness

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What are your thought on what Stewart are saying? Aren`t we all sensitive to our own biases?
 
Comedians tell jokes and sensitivity is for pussies. Jon was on coke I think.
 
One should never try getting high on political correctness. That leads to feminism, feminism leads to hate and hate leads to suffering.
 
PC over-sensitivity is dick-ish whichever side it's coming from, but I can't really think of a time the American right got all whiny about PC nonsense (certainly not to the same extent as the left, at least. Feel free to correct me.). There is the 'you hate whites' thing, but since the left is desperate to jump to the rescue of every colour (based on colour) but whites, that's not exactly a surprising outcome.
And Trump skipping out on the debate... meh, I kinda just figured he was making a statement (sort of, you need me more than I need you kinda thing, which turned out to be true) and, I mean, didn't he go off that night and raise money for a charity? Hardly sitting around and sulking about his hurt feelings.

I didn't watch the whole vid. It was mostly yammering.
 
I miss Jon Stewart. He is spot on.
The new Daily Show is mediocre at best, and the same for Colbert's new platform. Why oh why did he ever leave the Colbert Report, to go to a sterile network channel, to interview who-gives-a-fuck celebrities.

Last week Tonight is filling up a big void though. But we need you back on TV Stewart!
 
The problem isn't with trying to be politically correct to avoid hurting people's feelings. The problem is people's feelings are hurt way too easily now a days.
 
2DUM2TAP said:
The problem isn't with trying to be politically correct to avoid hurting people's feelings. The problem is people's feelings are hurt way too easily now a days.
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Political correctness is nothing if not lying to sound nice.

It is the direct result of women getting in politics.
 
Thurisaz said:
Political correctness is nothing if not lying to sound nice.

It is the direct result of women getting in politics.
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It's not lying.... it's choosing your words carefully.
 
I generally don't care what Stewart has to say but the overall video (the non-Stewart portion) is exactly what I've been saying for a while now about people complaining about "PC culture" and identity politics.

The people who scream the loudest about the evils of leftist PC-ism refuse to acknowledge the existence and extent of rightist PC-ism. I'm glad someone bothered putting together even a short list of the hypocrisy.
 
CableandThanos said:
Cant watch the video, anyone give a brief breakdown
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Basically saying everyone is hypocrite when it comes to political correctness and people who complain about political correctness gets as of offended as others when they feel others are insensetrive about things they hold dear. Used happy holidays as example
 
I find Stewart's argument to be hypocritical. He also confuses objecting to things as being too PC. If this were the case, he is being "too PC" in this very video.

He gives the Merry Christmas/Happy holidays example. It's politically correct to say Happy holidays because alluding to Christmas offends people. Objecting to this by saying it's too PC is not in itself being too PC, that's an inane argument. If that were true, he's being too PC by pointing out that those who argue that things are too PC are too PC.

No one is trying to censor people from saying Happy holidays. People are trying to censor Merry Christmas. How do you not see the difference there?
 
"vanity fair made a joke about Trump's hands over 25 years ago and he's still not over it"

LOL!
 
Pretty sure he called Rob Ford a "crackhead".

Shouldn't he have referred to him as a troubled man with personal demons?


Same old, same old. Political correctness is appropriate when it suits your agenda, and not appropriate when it doesn't. A comedian of all people should not be commenting on the topic. He's broken the sacred PC rules plenty of times.
 
panamaican said:
I generally don't care what Stewart has to say but the overall video (the non-Stewart portion) is exactly what I've been saying for a while now about people complaining about "PC culture" and identity politics.

The people who scream the loudest about the evils of leftist PC-ism refuse to acknowledge the existence and extent of rightist PC-ism. I'm glad someone bothered putting together even a short list of the hypocrisy.
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There are two components of the PC criticism. The first part is sensitivity. Sensitivity is learned, by a large part. For example, different gestures are considered offensive in different cultures. Our beliefs are what's causing us to get offended. The gesture itself is irrelevant, it's our interpretation of the gesture that matters. The word "cracker" isn't what's making people to get upset. They have an internal rule that says it's unacceptable to to say that word. Breaking that rule is what's upsetting them.

People are criticizing the sensitivity part, sure, but that's usually not the main focus of it. People are criticizing pc culture because pc people are trying to change how other people behave. That's the bad part. I would like people to be less sensitive, but if they don't change, that's ok by me. I don't think anybody is saying they have to change. Nobody is forcing them to change.

On the other hand, there are real consequences now if you say stuff other people don't like. You don't hold the same beliefs as I do? You're evil and we must get you fired and ruin your life. That's scary.
 
Thames said:
I miss Jon Stewart. He is spot on.
The new Daily Show is mediocre at best, and the same for Colbert's new platform. Why oh why did he ever leave the Colbert Report, to go to a sterile network channel, to interview who-gives-a-fuck celebrities.

Last week Tonight is filling up a big void though. But we need you back on TV Stewart!
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Actually he is a dumb as fuck shill for the left.

What is this whole systematic racism that is still holding down blacks??? Can he list proof of systematic racism since the democrats jim crow laws were abolished???

Look, there has always been acting like a jackass. Trump acts like a jackass and is crude. We don't need PC for people not to go around calling people n-words or crackers or etc. Never have.

PC is where we alter the TRUTH to not hurt someone's feelings and with islamic terrorists this is dangerous and lethal. PC is taking terms for something like crippled and making up new terms for it. It is retarded.

And as far as comedians go, only George Carlin said it right

^ cliffs: talks about what pieces of shit liberals are now
 
stewart was right for the most part. the only thing i'll take exception to is the alleged systemic racism of black folks part. that may have been true in the past, but it's not the case today. black folks who are poor and uneducated don't place importance on education, and that is what is keeping them down today.
 
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