Political correctness

So there's a lot more to come on this story.

But it's kind of resurfaced the old conversation of this enemy, an enemy that political correctness will not allow us to identify.

And that's why I like to turn the attention to Muhammad himself and the three contradictory examples of his life.

Once, just a religion, one of 365 religions in Mecca, very tolerant, took a little bit of Judaism, a little bit of Christianity, formed a new religion, no big deal.

And Europe's doing the worst.

America was on a trajectory of following their lead.

Ted Cruz commented on our inability to identify the enemy and protect ourselves because of political correctness.

Listen.

Rico dem banjos, it's time for Walkie Talkie.

PC mad and loony.

Reform are a woke party.

Where does it end this?

He points out we're in a volatile stretch and that the English-speaking world keeps having these bruising fights about language.

Specifically, he wants to know when the term politically correct actually started showing up.

what the first contexts were, and how the concept has changed shape.

Then he wants the live debate, the one happening right now around gender identity, where people say certain everyday expressions are gendered and should be avoided, and the pushback that this has overreached and made frank speech mentally taxing for people who are trying to engage in good faith.

Most people, if you ask them, will point to the 1990s, campus speech codes, maybe a specific protest.

But the phrase is much older, and it started on the opposite side of the political spectrum from where it ended up.

It's a strange trajectory, a term that began as a kind of earnest self-description among people who thought being politically correct was a virtue, and now it's almost exclusively a pejorative, a thing you call your opponent.

That's a full inversion.

And you've performed in clubs, pubs, theatres, corporate events across the country, and you've seen Australians change, you know, drastically over the years, as we all have.

Today I want to talk about comedy, men, friendship, free speech, political correctness.

and what we've gained and perhaps lost as our culture has evolved.

So perhaps over to you, Jack.

But having said that also, you couldn't swear on the radio and television back in those days, whereas people do fairly now.

Have you experienced the change? Perhaps you, Jack.

Yeah, well, with the style of act that I've got and the content with mainly one-liners, I never really had to worry about political correctness too much because I was doing jokes about a lost thong and a doorknob and stuff like that.

But where I have noticed the big changes in the corporate scene, the sensitivity, the Well, there's one example I can give you.

You're mostly denying Being able to actually say that, but I think... and that's probably because of your internalized libtard feminism or whatever.

You're allowed to say that, you know? And, and it's always like this like PC safe masculinity where I'll see these Instagram reels of guys who are like, "10 out of 10 bleed out spot.

[scoffs] Dude, I just have the urge to go die in a war.

[scoffs] Dude, this is the kind of girl that I would, I would look at her photo as I'm bleeding out." Why are you passive? Why are you passive in that, that description? Why don't you say something like, instead of, "Dude, I have the urge to die and bleed out like a real man" why don't you say, "I have the urge to throw on like a Jerusalem cross and go kill a bunch of," uh...

Besotted.

And when people... thing that goes on about would they make a comedy like that anymore is it politically correct and all that Monsieur Alphonse and Edith that's definitely not a sort of non-PC thing the idea of an elderly couple being in love with each other and having a sort of desire for each other is quite modern

isn't

it it's the opposite of politically incorrect if you like to use that clearly expression and actually rather the same thing with Fanny and Monsieur Leclerc And also, and there's an extension of that, Gruber being around a gentle, lovable character, which we've discussed, I think, about 300,000 times, haven't we? I'm so sorry.

They have done that.

And you can blame that on all the political correctness and the bull crap that I just mentioned.

All right, let's take a break and come back.

This is The Rob Carson Show.