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Dear Jerry Seinfeld We need to talk about the role that provocative comedy holds
Posted on 6/23/15 at 3:59 pm
Posted on 6/23/15 at 3:59 pm
in a progressive society
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Recently, I've heard about your reluctance to perform on college campuses because of how "politically correct" college students are. You also further made remarks that college students are quick to use the words "racist," "sexist," and "prejudice" with little reverence for what those words really mean (which you felt was proven by a remark made by your 14-year old daughter.)
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While I do agree with you that college students today are more sensitive to issues of race and gender politics, it's simply because that's our job as learners. As college students who are engaged in a myriad of social, economic, and political issues, it's our duty to be actively engaged and educated about issues of sexism, racism and prejudice. While, respectively, your daughter might not quite know what's considered "sexist" yet, I can say with confidence that most college students can distinguish the boundaries of what's considered appropriately sexist or not.
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It isn't so much that college students are too politically correct (whatever your definition of that concept is), it's that comedy in our progressive society today can no longer afford to be crass, or provocative for the sake of being offensive. Sexist humor and racist humor can no longer exist in comedy because these concepts are based on archaic ideals that have perpetrated injustice against minorities in the past.
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Sincerely,
college student
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This post was edited on 6/23/15 at 4:01 pm
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Posted on 6/23/15 at 4:02 pm to Dire Wolf
That douche needs to get laid. What a gay
Posted on 6/23/15 at 4:02 pm to Dire Wolf
Where is this person? One of us has to die.
Posted on 6/23/15 at 4:03 pm to X123F45
Where is Lenny Bruce and Bill Hicks when we need them?
Posted on 6/23/15 at 4:04 pm to Dire Wolf
Yeahhhhhh, douchey response letters like that are why Seinfeld won't do college campuses anymore. What an A-hole.
This post was edited on 6/23/15 at 4:06 pm
Posted on 6/23/15 at 4:04 pm to Dire Wolf
College kids ain't shite.
Posted on 6/23/15 at 4:05 pm to Dire Wolf
Posted on 6/23/15 at 4:05 pm to Dire Wolf
I wish I could punch this a-hole in the face.
What a damn vagina.
What a damn vagina.
Posted on 6/23/15 at 4:05 pm to Dire Wolf
quote:
It isn't so much that college students are too politically correct (whatever your definition of that concept is), it's that comedy in our progressive society today can no longer afford to be crass, or provocative for the sake of being offensive. Sexist humor and racist humor can no longer exist in comedy because these concepts are based on archaic ideals that have perpetrated injustice against minorities in the past.
This kind of crap makes me hope that Anthony Jeselnik would go on a nationwide college tour.
Posted on 6/23/15 at 4:05 pm to Dire Wolf
frick off, college boy
Posted on 6/23/15 at 4:07 pm to Dire Wolf
I can't stand college students who think they're automatically intelligent and educated simply due to the fact they are in college.
Posted on 6/23/15 at 4:08 pm to Dire Wolf
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Sexist humor and racist humor can no longer exist in comedy because these concepts are based on archaic ideals that have perpetrated injustice against minorities in the past.
No brah. Its funny because its true.
Posted on 6/23/15 at 4:08 pm to Dire Wolf
He probably wore through his thesaurus trying to come up with words to sound intelligent.
Posted on 6/23/15 at 4:08 pm to Downtown Devin Brown
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I can't stand college students who think they're automatically intelligent and educated simply due to the fact they are in college.
They literally think they know everything. So much hubris.
Then they grow up and realize they knew jack shite.
Posted on 6/23/15 at 4:08 pm to Dire Wolf
Chris Rock should go on a nationwide college tour
Posted on 6/23/15 at 4:09 pm to burdman
So Waycist
Posted on 6/23/15 at 4:09 pm to Dire Wolf
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While I do agree with you that college students today are more sensitive to issues of race and gender politics, it's simply because that's our job as learners.
Yup, the current college students know more than the rest of the world, and are in no way similar to college students throughout history. They're so much more educated now than the rest of us when we toiled with all of our book learin.
Posted on 6/23/15 at 4:09 pm to Downtown Devin Brown
and yet our own president can speak the n word.
Posted on 6/23/15 at 4:10 pm to Downtown Devin Brown
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I can't stand college students who think they're automatically intelligent and educated simply due to the fact they are in college.
Man A: Hello. I am a lawyer
Man B: Really. What firm?
Man A: Well no firm yet. I'm still in law school.
Man B: So you're not a lawyer.
Man A: I pretty much am.
Man B:
Posted on 6/23/15 at 4:11 pm to Downtown Devin Brown
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I can't stand college students who think they're automatically intelligent and educated simply due to the fact they are in college.
Dude goes to SDSU, that is like the Southeastarn of California.
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