Jerry Seinfeld: Politically correct students 'dont know what they're talking about'

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Originally Posted by Empired

But as a counter argument it's also got to the point where people blame entire groups of other people (e.g the generalisation that all university students are too PC is a bit of a stretch, don't you think?) when that's not the case at all. This works both ways: some Tumblr users (feminazis and SJWs) need to stop being so butthurt over everything but other groups need to stop blaming everyone who doesn't agree with them.
Isn't there the tiniest teeniest possibility that your jokes aren't funny and it has nothing to do with political correctness? Especially when they're told in that passive aggressive kind of way that's saying "I dare you to complain about my jokes" than "aren't I funny?". But at the same time isn't there the teeniest tiniest possibility that you're overreacting and that joke about women making a sandwich was meant to be just that: a harmless joke?

(The word "you" is general rather than me speaking to one person in particular here)

There was a thread made a few weeks ago about where you draw the line when it comes to comedy (was it made by you kyle?) and some people have lines where, when crossed, they don't find the joke funny anymore. And that's fine?? Obviously there's a difference between those people and SJWs but some people don't want to see that. I think it's unfair to say all- or even most- University students are too PC just because they don't find some of your jokes funny.

I don't care either way. I enjoy some "edgier" comedy that would probably make a tumblr feminazi flip but sometimes it's just not to my taste. Still not gonna be outraged by it, I'll just turn off the TV.

Just sick of this blame game where it always seems to be somebody else's fault and everyone's competing to be the most outraged:
"all men tell sexist jokes and I'm outraged by that"
"all women are outraged by my jokes and I'm outraged that they don't find me funny"

The jokes these people tell are funny in an objective sense though. They have all the ingredients of good jokes and use context and stereotypes appropriately. The only problem really comes with a lack of understanding or appreciation for some types of comedy. Louis CK has made millions of dollars from risque humour and is arguably the biggest stand up in the world and Seinfeld is worth almost a billion; the problem is not that people don't find them funny, it's that those that don't find them funny rally together baying for blood claiming to be [TRIGGEREd] and do everything they can to silence them. In the 1930s a great number of authors opposed to the ideology in the third reich were persecuted and had their works destroyed in the name of promoting Nazism and today we have great thinkers writers and entertainers like these men censoring themselves not for fear of disrupting the status quo but fear of losing their position in society. The internet generation unfortunately has the power to shape knowledge and to influence thought on right and wrong or funny and offensive. It's just smart to avoid performing for young folk with warped morals and political sway if you're an iconoclast.