Stewart Lee- Political Correctness Gone Mad

[Kaptenklok1]

Thank good you don't have to be funny any more in order to call your self a comedian.

[bluebettle]

That's one sturdy mic.

[Alexanderisgreat]

this guy should be ashamed to call him self of comedian. what a fucking stupid sheep.

[frodakai]

@Alexanderisgreat You clearly have no understanding of comedy. Stewart Lee is one of the all time, British comedy greats.

Troll elsewhere.

[Westy91]

Teehee! I guessed he would say 'Cunt' before he said it. MAGIC.

[dylandior123]

The build up to the ending was hilarious! :-p

[elevatorbrit]

PC hasn't gone that mad...someone's obviously still offended. There's still those jobless old biddies writing pointless fucking letters to Points of fucking View!

[DejectedPanda]

All this "someone who" language doesn't soften anything. It might be well intentioned, but its a verbose, clumsy and silly way to speak. "Woman who worked as a prostitute=prostitute". You're saying the same thing, only using more words.

[groove1984]

@DejectedPanda Except "a woman that worked as a prostitute" implies just what their occupation was whilst the other labels their whole being as just "a prostitute".

[DejectedPanda]

@groove1984 the fact that you use the "someone who" language to describe what they do is kind of shaming in a way. Generally no one feels the need to do that with someone who is a computer programmer or a gynecologist. If they're using PC "someone who" language to describe you, its obvious you do something that's considered awful by person doing it.

[maryandchild]

@DejectedPanda actually, that's not right- the perception of the public at large is that working as a prostitute is shameful- the people writing the article don't exist in a vacuum. it's extremely graceful and rare for a publication to focus on the personhood of people in 'shameful' professions or 'shameful' states, and it's especially needed in cases where the victims are devalued and 'invisible' in society.

[DejectedPanda]

@maryandchild Did I somehow imply that the public at large doesn't feel that way? My point is that phrasing things differently when you are referring to someone in one of those shameful professions actually only emphasizes the fact that it is a shameful thing to do. It's stupid. It won't make one person who reads that paper think any better of the person. I doubt even the people who make these decisions at these papers go around referring to people as "someone who".

[DejectedPanda]

@groove1984 I looked it up (smart, huh?). The word prostitute refers to a person who is in that occupation, so by using the word directly you aren't denying their personhood or the wholeness or their being.

[maryandchild]

@DejectedPanda while you have the dictionary out you should look up 'connotation' and 'denotation'. it'll blow your mind.

[DejectedPanda]

@maryandchild Yes, I see now.  "Someone who" really does erase all those negative connotations that go along with being a prostitute. Point well made.

[maryandchild]

@DejectedPanda are you being deliberately obtuse? it doesn't erase the negative connotation, but it is always more respectful to focus on the personhood when discussing people (like, saying 'a transgender woman' instead of 'a transgender', etc.)- these are like very common, basic respect things. reducing women to functions instead of humans is a big, known, systemic problem, so comparing 'prostitute' describing a woman to neutral things like 'computer programmer' is a faulty parallel.

[EzPz8]

@maryandchild People know when someone says prostitute is means a female and a escort to be a male. There is no problem with this unless you're one of these people who finds anything offensive like calling someone John instead of Jonathan...would that offend all the Jonathan's all over the world? LOL

[poniesinashed]

That's bollocks. Cunts are useful.

[lowcoststart]

I LOVE THE MIDDLE FINGER 1:24

[weberbeat]

@EidSeimmoc That's interesting. Female sexual organs have political bias. But how does the first word fit into that?

[AlanTTT3]

A stand-up comedian who prides himself on his moral excellence, intellectual superiority, and political correctness – I guess you can’t really expect him to be funny as well.

[TheAnxiousMan]

@AlanTTT3 'moral excellence' haha

[megamarsvin]

@AlanTTT3 Subtlety and craftsmanship isn't for everyone I suppose ;)

[Flabbergast3d]

I F***ing love it, this guy is hilarious! And the thing is I could probably quote this guys jokes and nobody would know about it (I won't), it took me years to find his 'american stand-ups' stand up.

As for agenda, who cares I don't watch comedy so I can bray that torys are c**ts or agree with someone, but he makes a good point.

[Nemij86]

''If you want a nigger for a neighbour vote Liberal or Labour''

LOL

[EzPz8]

I expected to see a video slagging off overly PC idiots but he is doing the opposite :/ pointless sketch, PC HAS gone mad!

[mawknation]

@EzPz8 ahahahahahaha

[EzPz8]

@EzPz8 too many negatives votes huh, thick people these days :)

[superhamzah85]

@EzPz8

Yeah you can't say nigger anymore.

*rolls eyes*

No, you CAN say nigger, and depending on your usage, we CAN call you a cunt. It's the ANTI-PC brigade who are moaning about OUR free speech.

[EzPz8]

@superhamzah85 Erm can't remember how long ago I commented this, so well done being that bored.

What did I say about the N word!?

Your free speech? It's you lot saying nobody can say anything these days about minorities even If It's a tiny joke, yet if someone makes a joke about a ginger/white/French then nothing is said about it....the PC brigade are a bunch of hypocrites anyway.

[superhamzah85]

@EzPz8

Umm...you CAN say stuff about minorities -_-

Go right ahead...

[EzPz8]

@superhamzah85 Nope, not even a slightly humorous joke can be told without people who have onomatophobia (PC people) being horrified. Yet they think whites/gingers/French being ridiculed is ok as they aren't minorities... double standards.

[superhamzah85]

@EzPz8

Make any joke you want!

[EzPz8]

@superhamzah85 I'm not falling into your traps little boy. :)

[superhamzah85]

@EzPz8

There is no trap, make any joke you want!

[maryandchild]

@EzPz8 you know that context and history exist, right? and that there is a difference between people from a majority group mocking people from a minority group and people from a majority group mocking people who fit in their own group...? really, do some critical thinking. we do not live in a world where everyone is treated the same, so why pretend it's the same when it comes to who we get to make jokes about?

[EzPz8]

@maryandchild Which history point in question? I don't need to do any "critical thinking" I'm normal minded, I'm not one of these people who checks the PC Dictionary every 5 mins in case I've made a joke that offends people with one thumb bigger than the other.

So you're telling me there shouldn't be equality and in fact create over praising to people who aren't of the majority?

I'm not going to leave groups out of my humour as I just treat all humans fairly. Wait is that offensive to aliens? :(

[AThousandTigers]

@EzPz8 lol lookit dis idiot

[way2tehdawn]

Speaking out against political correctness gone mad, it's political correctness gone mad.

[mf91007]

I like the part where he

[emphaticapathy]

@mf91007 Me too LOL

[supercommie]

I agree with this guy wholeheartedly.