Posted by
AJH on Friday, February 27, 2009 5:17:48 PM
I love this opening from a story at Yahoo! News India, which is a good source for some issues not generally reported in the American media.
“Acting legend Clint Eastwood, 79, apparently believes that political correctness has rendered modern society humourless.”
Apparently Eastwood's comments left the writer somewhat unclear, thinking apparently that Clint might actually be a racist. Apparently political correctness crept into the writing a bit. Obviously there is no “apparently” about it; Eastwood does not like what has happened.
I have enjoyed most of his movies and love the fact that he, as he ages, the powers in Hollywood don't deter him from speaking the truth.
“People have lost their sense of humor. In former times we constantly made jokes about different races. You can only tell them today with one hand over your mouth or you will be insulted as a racist.”
“I find that ridiculous. In those earlier days every friendly clique had a 'Sam the Jew' or 'Jose the Mexican' - but we didn't think anything of it or have a racist thought. It was just normal that we made jokes based on our nationality or ethnicity. That was never a problem. I don't want to be politically correct.”
“We're all spending too much time and energy trying to be politically correct about everything.”
AJH