After comedian Carlos Mencia did his standup act at Rutgers University's Homecoming last September, a student activist complained that the routine was littered with racial and sexual epithets. Mencia was pleasantly surprised when the students and administration of the diverse Newark, N.J., campus opted to support him.
"I personally thought I was a huge success in the fact that, for the first time, somebody pointed out that the exception was the exception and not the rule," Mencia told TheWrap. "It wasn't, 'We're going to take this one person's complaints and turn it into, 'This is how everybody else felt,' it was, 'This is one person's complaint.'"
But for edgy comics like the former "Mind of Mencia" star whose material delves into racial and societal issues, run-ins with political correctness don't always go so smoothly. Last December, Bill Maher was the subject of a petition drive at the University of California Berkeley by activists opposed to his speaking at winter commencement because of his past remarks criticizing Muslims.
Across the United States, high-profile comedians like Jerry Seinfeld, Larry the Cable Guy and Chris Rock have said they are avoiding campuses because of student hypersensitivity. "I don't play colleges, but I hear a lot of people tell me, 'They're so PC,'" Seinfeld famously told ESPN's Colin Cowherd in June. "
"Sometimes people don't even know why they're angry, they just jump on the bandwagon — they don't even do the research. The most brilliant example of that for me was Patton Oswalt, who sent out a series of tweets apologizing for nothing — and people lambasted him for it." Noah knows from experience — within hours after he was named to replace Jon Stewart, the South African native was called out on social media for edgy tweets about "fat chicks" and Jews that he had posted years ago. "That's the age we live in.
We don't want to read anymore, we don't want to find out why, we just go, are people angry? I want to be angry," he said.
- See more at: https://www.thewrap.com/comedians-avoiding-campus-when-did-universities-lose-their-sense-of-humor/#sthash.xgjVqkWq.dpuf
^That shit makes me vomit.
I find it sad.
I was watching Bill Maher (wich is something I rarely do) and he was talking about how college campus's have become bastions of PCism and how many of today's comedians refuse to perform on campus. One little PC turd even had the audacity to write an editorial letter to Jerry Seinfeld and proceeded to lecture him on the how to be more PC in his comedy routine. Can you imagine the far left arrogance and stupidity of some 20 year old little snot nosed shit telling someone like Jerry Seinfeld how to do his job??? :shock:
All Maher could do was say something to the effect of "when I was 20 years old I did a lot od stupid stuff but wouldn't dare write an editorial telling George Carlin how to do his job by being more PC". because Carlin would have answered the editorial and told me to go fuck myself. :laugh:
Stand by for Mr P C Obfuscator ... .1 .. .2. .. 3..
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All Maher could do was say something to the effect of "when I was 20 years old I did a lot od stupid stuff but wouldn't dare write an editorial telling George Carlin how to do his job by being more PC". because
And that's exactly what needs to happen. More of these stupid little PC pukes need to be told to go fuck themselves.
We need to stop bowing to this shit as if it wasn't the exception. All the people who didn't write in to bitch either liked it or didn't care enough to put paper to pen. We need to stop bending over for the small group of idiots that make a fuss over nothing.
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All Maher could do was say something to the effect of "when I was 20 years old I did a lot od stupid stuff but wouldn't dare write an editorial telling George Carlin how to do his job by being more PC". because
And that's exactly what needs to happen. More of these stupid little PC pukes need to be told to go fuck themselves.
We need to stop bowing to this shit as if it wasn't the exception. All the people who didn't write in to bitch either liked it or didn't care enough to put paper to pen. We need to stop bending over for the small group of idiots that make a fuss over nothing.
You are 100% correct, it's time we strung these PC scumbags up by their thumbs.
But unfortunately the far left and their prog allies with their PC horse hit have elevated the art of making mountains out of molehills into a science (just watch Romero in action). They have somehow buffaloed the majority of people into believing that their point of view is the correct pov and that offending others is a crime against humanity. Anyone who dares disagree is demonized and persecuted by the PC left's favorite lap dog...the so called news media.
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Donald Trump is scheduled to host "Saturday Night Live" this week. On Friday's episode of "The O'Reilly Factor," the reality TV star said he nixed a number of potential skits for fear of further depressing his sinking poll numbers.
"Yes, I had to. There were a couple that were too risqué," Trump told Fox News host Bill O'Reilly when asked if he'd rejected some of the proposed scripts. "Because, you know, the poll just came down. I'm leading in Iowa. I want to stay leading in Iowa."
//http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-rejected-snl-skits-too-risque_563e38a5e4b0b24aee4a8fab
It ended up being one of the most boring SNL's I've ever seen.
What a wuss.
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He's fizzling out. It was only a matter of time. The GOP base is wanting more than just inflammatory rhetoric and a bad haircut. :laugh3:
I really wanted him to win the Republican candidacy.
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It would have been interesting.
EXACTLY!
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It would have been interesting.
I see Ben Carson is in trouble now too. He wrote a book claiming he was one bad little dude, but the events surrounding it cannot be confirmed.
Made up bad boy.
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Most people running for office try to hide any mischief they got into in their youth. Carson appears to have at least embellished his rebelliousness.
Oh the horror, the anger issues Carson had as a teen can't be confirmed. Will the sun rise tomorrow?
Horse shit.
I'm a little more concerned over his alleged connection and involvement with a friend who has been convicted of insurance fraud.
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Horse shit.
I'm a little more concerned over his alleged connection and involvement with a friend who has been convicted of insurance fraud.
That's too bad Renee..
Dr Carson seemed like such a nice man.
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Horse shit.
I'm a little more concerned over his alleged connection and involvement with a friend who has been convicted of insurance fraud.
This thread sure took a strange direction so I'll go with the flow
While I dislike Carson so far for other reasons, you guys are accepting something that is merely alleged by hard digging pro prog press as though it were fact . That is sad, but demonstrates how effective the prog press is, even upon many generally MUCH smarter than yer average poster people here
Amazing isn't it. O'Child was heavily connected to a known and still unrepentant terrorist, (Aires)
attended and best-friended the so-called preacher of a so-called church that openly and provably preached hate for whites and country, ("God Damn America" from the pulpit as one of 1000s of items over the 20 years he attended)
was given land at less than 1/2 price by a real estate player and good friend who was convicted of real estate fraud just before his first election (Resco)
(for just a few examples) and the press not only gave him a pass but outright protected the scumbag by not mentioning those things .. .even outright denying them ... and attacked anyone who demonstrated these things .. and did deliberately virtually ZERO checking his past
When their "enemy" pulls a girls pigtails in Kindergarten it's headlines like "Pervert Past" . lol
Then the MSM is over 90% registrants of a certain party and the balance mainly "Independents", eh? :icon_wink:
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Horse shit.
I'm a little more concerned over his alleged connection and involvement with a friend who has been convicted of insurance fraud.
:laugh: What kind of whackjob brags about knifing someone? And it's probably another lie like the rest of his stories.
It's no surprise he would be a Republican front runner!
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It would have been interesting.
I see Ben Carson is in trouble now too. He wrote a book claiming he was one bad little dude, but the events surrounding it cannot be confirmed.
ac_lmfao
he wrote about things that happened 50+ years ago. He is in his 70's now.
1.Would you be surprised if a reporter could not find someone to corroborate things you did 50+ years ago?
2.Isn't it a trivial topic? He also became* a surgeon btw :laugh:
became* = worked his ass off
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Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson believes the Egyptian pyramids were used for grain.
In a college commencement speech 17 years ago, Carson told the graduates of Andrews University in Michigan that it is his "personal" belief that the pyramids were built as storehouses for grain and not, as archaeologists say, for the interment of dead pharaohs.
"My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain," Carson said in taped remarks first reported by Buzzfeed on Wednesday. "Now all the archeologists think that they were made for the pharaohs' graves. But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big if you stop and think about it."
//http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/05/politics/ben-carson-pyramids-grain/
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Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson believes the Egyptian pyramids were used for grain.
In a college commencement speech 17 years ago, Carson told the graduates of Andrews University in Michigan that it is his "personal" belief that the pyramids were built as storehouses for grain and not, as archaeologists say, for the interment of dead pharaohs.
"My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain," Carson said in taped remarks first reported by Buzzfeed on Wednesday. "Now all the archeologists think that they were made for the pharaohs' graves. But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big if you stop and think about it."
//http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/05/politics/ben-carson-pyramids-grain/
:laugh:
well, I suppose he focussed on surgery.
people believe a lot of dumb things. why he has confidence to mention it, I don't know.
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Last weekend Senator Ted Cruz, along with fellow GOP presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, spoke at a conference in Des Moines headed up by a man who advocates the execution of gay people -- per his interpretation of the bible -- and who made his call for mass extermination once again, onstage at the event, the National Religious Liberties Conference. Pastor Kevin Swanson has said in the past that Christians should attend gay weddings and hold up signs telling the newly married gay and lesbian couples that they "should be put to death." He was an advocate of Uganda's infamous "Kill the Gays" bill, which he saw as a model.
At the confab over the weekend, where he introduced Huckabee, Jindal and Cruz to the audience -- and where Ted Cruz's father, Rafael Cruz, an anti-gay Tea Party crusader, was a star speaker -- he reiterated his death penalty call, adding that homosexuals should first be given some time to repent before the executions begin. There's nothing subtle about what he said, and you can watch it for yourself, including his statements about what he would do if he were one of those parents of a gay person:
//http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/post_10496_b_8544540.html
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It would have been interesting.
I see Ben Carson is in trouble now too. He wrote a book claiming he was one bad little dude, but the events surrounding it cannot be confirmed.
ac_lmfao
he wrote about things that happened 50+ years ago. He is in his 70's now.
1.Would you be surprised if a reporter could not find someone to corroborate things you did 50+ years ago?
2.Isn't it a trivial topic? He also became* a surgeon btw :laugh:
became* = worked his ass off
He's 64 and the people CNN talked to paint a different picture of a young Carson than what he claims he was like. I don't give a shit. It's just a fucking book.
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Horse shit.
I'm a little more concerned over his alleged connection and involvement with a friend who has been convicted of insurance fraud.
:laugh: What kind of whackjob brags about knifing someone? And it's probably another lie like the rest of his stories.
It's no surprise he would be a Republican front runner!
You're a moron, but then again we all know that.
He wasn't bragging, he used the events of his past as a way to show how he turned his life around.
Only an idiot would see it as bragging. Only a prog dumbass would look at it as you do. Maybe you need to hunt thru the Huff-Puff or better yet Media prog Bullshit/ Matters and see if they can explain it to you. :laugh3:
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In a contentious day in the GOP race, frontrunner Donald Trump didn't shy away from calling out his rival "in second place" Ben Carson, asking the 1,500 Iowans in the crowd today about Carson's "pathological stories" in his book and saying "How stupid are the people of Iowa to believe this crap?"
//http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-ben-carson-stories-stupid-people-iowa/story?id=35168986
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In a contentious day in the GOP race, frontrunner Donald Trump didn't shy away from calling out his rival "in second place" Ben Carson, asking the 1,500 Iowans in the crowd today about Carson's "pathological stories" in his book and saying "How stupid are the people of Iowa to believe this crap?"
//http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-ben-carson-stories-stupid-people-iowa/story?id=35168986
:laugh: trump's opinion has value? particularly on someone he's running against :001_rolleyes: trump's a tv showman.
I kind of like Ben Carson from what little I know of him..
Donald Trump is not likely to change that.