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In reply to the discussion: Bill Maher - "Political correctness Nazis too easily offended" [View all]JoeyT
(6,785 posts)What demanding the "PC Nazis" leave him alone means is "I get to use whatever slur I want whenever I feel like it, and no one gets to call me a racist, sexist, or homophobe.". It's a wimpier, whinier version of the right-winger's "Free speech means I can say whatever I want and you can't criticize me!".
Your point fails in that he's not just defending the use of edgy comedy. He's defending things like the use of racial slurs for team names and whining about letting transgender people choose their own name for themselves because being a dick to people with less power than you is apparently hilarious. I see y'all keep citing Carlin, who was never 1/100th the asshole Maher is. Carlin understood that comedy isn't about punching down.
The "Redskins" thing:
Who's making the argument can usually give you a good idea about the purpose of the argument. If vegetarians are constantly making an argument, there's a good chance it's because the argument benefits vegetarians in some way. If people that eat crayons are the main ones seen constantly making an argument, there's a good chance it benefits people that eat crayons.
When you do a DuckDuckGo (Because fuck Google) search for PC left -behind -dead (To weed out all the left behind and left 4 dead results), the media sources left on the first page are Mediatite, The Blaze (Glenn Beck), Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and Townhall (Teabaggers). All but one are right wingers, and that one is full of right wingers. So Bill Maher is in good company. With lots of other hateful asshats that are pissed off they can't use racial, misogynistic, or homophobic slurs without horrible people pointing out they're scumfucking racists, misogynists, or homophobes.