Clint Eastwood tears political correctness a new starfish

[Valkerone]

I mean, he's not wrong.

[Ad Bot]

[Kidalex90]

I mean, he's not wrong.

[Mr. Bones]

old white guy unsurprisingly says that "political correctness means no more jokes"
yeah recked. right. not to mention incredibly newsworthy

It kinda does, make a joke about any ethnicity/ideology/person and you'll be called tribal/(ideology here)phobic/or offensive.

Never understood the phobia thing. Slapping phobia at the end of a word isn't an argument.

[GRIMLOCK_]

OLD MAN ABSOLUTELY SHATTERS MILLENNIALS

groan

[Red Spy]

Never understood the phobia thing. Slapping phobia at the end of a word isn't an argument.

I think people completely forgeted the meaning of it

[Filipe]

I mean, he's not wrong.

[Nonnel]

wtf does dirty harry have to do with having a politically incorrect sense of humor

[Red Spy]

wtf does dirty harry have to do with having a politically incorrect sense of humor

Doesn't he punch a bunch of women and stuff

[torin²]

stop making fun of my boy clint

[Foxscotch]

stop making fun of my boy clit

your what

[torin²]

NOO!!!!! i dont mean it like that

[Nonnel]

your bussy

[Foxscotch]

clit eastWOOD tears porichardical correctness a new bussy

[IkeTheGeneric]

I like to believe there's a middle ground between not being a completely offensive starfish and going outside of the acceptable comfort zone of entertainment. It feels as if the problem with the political correctness argument isn't that there's no right answer, but rather that there's no good way to talk about it. I loving love the Sergio Leone westerns, I feel as though it exists on some level where political correctness just isn't really that relevant. We don't really lose if we try new, offensive humor, but we also don't lose if we self-police ourselves to a point of striving for refined and higher class entertainment.

The argument really becomes more interesting when you stop trying to stick an argument to people to attack them.

[IkeTheGeneric]

I often lean more towards what people in the topic would consider "Political correctness" due to my opinion that society should be a little bit more proactive about how we consume media, due to just how much our culture molds itself around entertainment in general. Ideally in a more hands-off fashion, but with at least some concern for the future. There's really no points to be drawn from "Just shut up and put up with what you don't like," there's no discussions there.

I think indigence and self-righteous disgust towards offensive material is still a bad way to discuss things, but I will argue to the ends of the earth that arguments of any sort about political correctness are in whole a good thing, no matter who is right or wrong. Godspeed, Mr. Eastwood.