DarthMetalliCube said:
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. |
You're using a lot of these big words which is really just obfuscating the issue. You can't make fun of certain groups any more. You can't make fun of disabilities, religions, ethnicities, etc etc etc. This is designed to give a valid place for all of these groups, because if you make jokes then they don't have as much a claim to America as everyone else has. I guess that is the assumption. But who would care about this more? The conservatives tend not to care as much about these groups. The liberals have fought for them. So, yes you can very much blame the liberals or perhaps blame the changing sentiments of our time towards some aspects of what the liberals want.
