| shavenferret said:
As to my point, if comedians had limits, then this kind of talk would be outlawed. Comedy has so much room to show how a society fails, by making a joke out of it. And it does this very well. The namby pamby liberals that only watch the disney channel, who cannot take a joke will never get this. |
I don't think it's fair to brand "liberals" as the culprit for the current sanitization or censorship of modern comedy. In fact most truly great comedy I consider more liberal at least on a fundamental level. Boundary pushing, freedom of expression, wild, edgy, critique and challenging of "the establishment", get people thinking, maybe a bit risque, etc.. Those are mostly liberal qualities at least in the traditional sense. Carlin, Pryor, South Park, Gervais, Hicks, Hedburg, Silverman, Burr, Maher, Borat, that sort of stuff..
What's described as the "left" today (at least here in America and seemingly even moreso in much of the West) is a hodgepodge of Neoliberalism/Neoconservatism, Authoritarianism, and a sort of Neo-Marxism - just with race and identity as the focus of division and power structures/hierarchies rather than class, as traditional Marxism hinges on. That's the main source (though not the only one) of the heat comedy tends to get of late. They've ironically taken on more of a Reactionary stance especially on a social/cultural level which I actually equate more with the old right.
I consider myself liberal for the most part. I recognize very few actual "liberal" qualities of today's left as a whole.
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