political correctness rant

[capri0mni]

I watched "The Tonight Show w/Jay Leno" on Friday last week, and again, this last Monday. And both times he made jokes about the whole "'Merry Christmas' vs. 'Happy Hollidays'" debate discussion thing. And both times, he was taking Bill O'Reilly's side.

And get this: his schtick was that the only reason people said "Happy Hollidays" was because of "political correctness."

Now, I know that Jay Leno knows that there are Jewish people in the country, too (I'll give him the benefit of the doubt on the wide range of Pagan religions), and I seriously doubt that he's a secret Neo-Nazi, or that he honestly believes that America should be Christian-only.

But I suspect he's telling these jokes because he figures that a large part of his audience actually likes O'Reilly.

If you ask me, I'd say that's the definition of "political correctness."

Comments

[rustyverse.livejournal.com]

Political correctness, my ass. When Bill Mahr got fired from (ironically enough)Politically Incorrect for calling soldiers who sit in bunkers and fire missiles using X-Box controllers cowardly, no one said that he was a victim of "political correctness", the media towed the line that Mahr "hated the troops" and "hated America".

"Political Correctness" is the greatest intellectual swindle of our time.

Jay Leno has always had a conservative bent to his act, so the fact that he's on this bandwagon doesn't surprise me in the least.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Yesh. The whole concept of "political correctness" -- the idea that consideration of people different from yourself, or of studying cultures in their own context are never sincere -- is insulting.

When I say: "Happy Hollidays!" I mean "Happy Hollidays!"

What gets me is that it's been a popular greeting card messages since the movie "Holliday Inn" came out in 1942. ... Boy, was that a time of anti-Christian depravity, or what?