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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.
They are going to manipulate it into giving them exactly what they want without ever having to work for it.
No kidding.. What the hell do you think Comrade Bernie Sanders is all about? To listen to him, his platform is freebies for everybody (err.. everybody *he* likes).. If he gets "elected", we are sooooooo screwed, FAR beyond how screwed we are already with Comrade Obama....
THANK YOU, Edward Snowden!! Americans owe you a debt of gratitude (whether they know it or not..)
Let me help. This might take a few moments since I'll need to go back through my posting history for a couple of months back. Ah, the value of set-in-stone history. It's very difficult to gaslight when dealing with that. Also I'd like to put up here that I have confirmed pretty much beyond a doubt that my recent quarrels have merely been with a group of bigots who are butthurt about the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival and other organizations they wanted to be womyn-born-womyn only shutting down. Their actions in no way reflect the larger feminist movement, so I'm sorry to have dragged the entire movement and the lesbian demographic through the mud, especially for nearly the entirety of my 15/16-ish year posting history. I simply had no reason to disbelieve the lies that vocal minority of bigots had led me to believe as truth. It won't happen again.
Before we get into the meat and potatoes here, I would like to point out that AmiMoJo has offered me his condolences before and asked if there anything he could do to help. I don't believe AmiMoJo is an un-redeemable person. I also realize that I have a high UID and even then, this site is like the big city. I don't expect anyone to remember who I am. I'd only expect somebody to have some idea who I am over in the small town that the red site is.
The thread is here.
However, I do believe he is a sexist who has closed his mind to viewpoints that disagree with him, and he needs to become aware of that fact, if only to improve his arguments and better protect girls without giving somebody like me, whose experiences I can only assume have been the polar opposite of his, the wrong impression.
I posted this comment about rape cultures. (My views on feminism have started changing again now that the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival is no more, and I've become convinced that I've just managed to run afoul of a vocal minority of local bigots, some of which happen to be homosexual. The post apprising me of the end of the MWMF is in that thread.) I think AmiMoJo simply got triggered.
I wrote:
What rape culture really means I've come to find doesn't really have anything to do with the act of rape. It's about FEEL GUILTY!
Somehow AmiMoJo managed to arrive at these gems and completely missed the fact that I offered for anyone to call their state university and ask to sit in on a rape culture presentation. I was required to attend a rape culture presentation by Grand Valley State University during orientation solely because of my gender on paper (all though, I hadn't fully realized at that point I was a woman, which made the presentation even more offensive and painful for me since I figured I was stuck as a guy forever and the only way out was suicide, which I very nearly carried through with a few times a year later).
All this crap about feeling guilty and oppressing men is just that, crap. If you feel guilty because someone pointed out to you that you should really get informed, enthusiastic consent before getting physical, you have to ask yourself why that makes you uncomfortable.
I'm a guy. When I touch a woman I want her to be happy about it, to enjoy it, to feel my expression of love or lust or whatever. Does this make me some kind of "pussy" or beta male? Is making her unhappy really the "masculine", manly thing to do? Or even the moral thing to do?
(Emphasis mine.)
Note, if one reads AmiMoJo's comment without any context, it makes a large amount of sense. I agree with everything he said more or less. That's what made the reply completely confusing to read.
See my (quite lengthy even for me) reply to that for more details about why AmiMoJo completely missed the target by posti