For example:
Speech Code of the Month at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education at www.thefire.org:
Saginaw State University forbids the telling of any jokes that may involve "race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or familial status, color, height, weight, handicap or disability."
The students had better be careful about when they smile, too, just to be safe.
Or maybe best not to smile at all.
2007-11-14 02:20:32 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
When institutions start imagining rules about humour and jokes, it is the beginning of the end. It is a type of totalitarianism of the mind. Resist!
2007-11-14 02:31:03 · answer #1 · answered by Lady Annabella-VInylist 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Getting? It used to be that at least Black Guys got a pass on PC for being black. Even they're losing ground now.
Today only Hispanic comics can tell ethnic jokes because so few Americans speak Spanish, and some old timers up in the Poconos who tell their jokes in Yiddish.
The day is coming when we stop talking to each other altogether for fear of giving offense. I think that's why NASCAR is so popular. Nobody likely to be offended is going to be at the track.
There's a reason for Free Speech. People who are talking, even Screaming Hateful Epithets, aren't pulling triggers. It's always good to know that someone has issues before the guns start going off.
In the wake of so many school shootings, it's a bad idea to discourage students from talking. If there's a problem, teachers need to know.
2007-11-14 08:42:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wow, that's one heck of a rule. It's, in fact, unconstitutional. I have a right to freedom of speech and so do the people telling jokes like those prohibited. I'll admit that some of the jokes told I find disgusting, but hey, we all find one or two (or dozens) that just make us laugh or smile because there's some truth behind the joke. So, if that's where we're headed then, yes, we're getting WAY too politically correct. Jokes are meant to poke fun while being funny, they aren't generally meant to offend.
Also, I wonder if that clause prohibits blonde jokes? If it's supposed to, I don't know what that would fall under.
2007-11-14 02:26:24 · answer #3 · answered by clairvoyant_dreamer 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If it weren't for the existence of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or familial status, color, height, weight, handicap or disablilty, there wouldn't be any fodder for any sort of joke. Those are the origin of almost every joke in existence.
a twist on reality is what makes jokes the funniest.
2007-11-14 02:29:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
To begin with that`s unconstitutional, it affects your freedom of speech. How sad that a small minority can force the majority to kow-tow to them. I would be tempted to grow a protest group over this.
2007-11-14 02:27:46 · answer #5 · answered by jms043 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
we are getting far too politically correct all around. We are so worried that we are going to offend someone that we have entirely hampered communication, especially between races.
2007-11-14 02:25:49 · answer #6 · answered by Layne M 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
We're becoming too politically correct about everything and we're raising a generation of wimps!
(In my humble opinion)!
2007-11-14 02:27:24 · answer #7 · answered by Maria W 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Right?! Whatever happened to free speech, next we won't be able to bear skin out in public!!
2007-11-14 02:24:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Maybe that's why there isn't too much funny going around. Its all becoming sad and lame.
2007-11-14 02:37:32 · answer #9 · answered by Nurse Winchester 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋