"Ever hear a comedian shit on the American Dream at a Wal★Mart shareholders meeting?"

Nice rant on what can & can't be said in these allegedly-p. c. United Snakes, in reaction to recent horseshit typed for The Atlantic. No Atlantic link because fuck them (& pretty much everything else under the sun, moon or stars).

Which brings me back to the Lukianoff/Haidt piece and its insulting thesis that college campuses are incubators for mental illness and emotional fragility because they make students hypersensitive to oppression – ignoring that the entire rest of the world is a hypersensitive minefield ready to blow the fuck up when you so much as mention the concept of oppression.

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They’re treating the oppressive culture of “political correctness” that silences dissent and enforces conformity that we have always had as normal and sane, and treating the resistance to it – the flawed attempt to come up with new social norms that comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable instead of vice versa – as though it’s the real sickness.