John Cleese Warns Campus Political Correctness Leading Towards 1984 (washingtonexaminer.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Ashe Schow writes at the Washington Examiner that, "The Monty Python co-founder, in a video for Internet forum Big Think, railed against the current wave of hypersensitivity on college campuses, saying he has been warned against performing on campuses. "[Psychiatrist Robin Skynner] said: 'If people can't control their own emotions, then they have to start trying to control other people's behavior,'" Cleese said. "And when you're around super-sensitive people, you cannot relax and be spontaneous because you have no idea what's going to upset them next." Cleese said that it's one thing to be "mean" to "people who are not able to look after themselves very well," but it was another to take it to "the point where any kind of criticism of any individual or group could be labeled cruel." Cleese added that "comedy is critical," and if society starts telling people "we mustn't criticize or offend them," then humor goes out the window. "With humor goes a sense of proportion," Cleese said. "And then, as far as I'm concerned, you're living in 1984." Cleese is just the latest comedian to lecture college students about being so sensitive.

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Re:Real liberals need to stop this

[LVSlushdat]

The problem here is these are NOT "true liberals", they have nothing to do with classic liberalism.. They are progressives, and I suspect one of the things they desperately want is to be led around by the nose by their government. How ELSE would they be so happy to champion sharia law, and elect somebody like Obama who thumbs his nose at America and its Constitution. As Dr Michael Savage puts it, "modern "liberalism/progressiveism is a mental disorder"... He's hit the nail on the head on this one....