Yes, Truthtalker is a nut.
As for this docudrama link:
“If we can’t have fun with one another than we lose our humanity. If free speech goes, then our basic freedoms will follow soon after.”
All this stuff is one big "round robin." The PC culture came from people feeling "free" to "speak" out about things that were always offensive, but never had popular backup. Then the popular backup came.
Then after that, the ones who jumped on the anti-PC bandwagon decided to start playing some kind of victim card, this whole "why aren't we allowed to (insert some bullshit here) anymore" that just results in them becoming the kind of whining they bemoan.
Then that gets the really dramatic members of the PC crowd to do the whole "YOU'RE the problem" and it gets caught up in hyperbole, the media gets involved to bring in viewers and sell ad revenue, on and on and on.
I don't have a horse in this race, I don't care for the overly-PC crowd, but I know where it comes from. I'm pretty non-PC myself, for example I love making offensive and edgy jokes, but even the sensitive people I know are fine with that because they know I'm an easygoing guy who enjoys humor and they know I have good intentions.
Another example: As a guy, too, I take a stand against the obvious anti-feminism I see from a lot of other guys, as well as this crazy defensiveness against a little bit of "girl power" here and there. It's nuts, and it's even more nuts that they can't see themselves overreacting. Some guys see the rising pride of "girl power" as some kind of threat to them, and it just makes me shake my head.
People who use humor to offend, they come across that way. But people who use offensive humor in a purely humorous way, they don't come across offensively.
The anti-PC culture comes across just as attention-whoring as the overly-PC culture.
I don't even know WTF I'm talking about at this point. I guess I said it: It's all a round robin, until only extremists are left shouting.
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