George Carlin On Political Correctness

Source:Frustrated Idealist- The Great George Carlin in 1990.

"George Carlin talks about how groups and institutions are inclined to restrict the vocabulary you use with emphasis on the feminist movement." 

From the Frustrated Idealist

"One of my favorite George Carlin bits in which he describes the sterilization of the American language. From the 1990 special Doin' it Again." 

Source:Rob Logan- The Great George Carlin in 1990.

From Rob Logan

"Now I've probably got the feminists all pissed off at me because I'm joking about rape. Feminists want to control your language. Feminists want to tell you how to talk.

And they're not alone, they're not alone. I'm not picking on the feminists. They got a lot of company in this country. There's a lot of groups, a lot of institutions in this country want to control your language. Tell you what you can say and what you can't say. Government wants to tell you some things you can't say because they're against the law. "Well, you can't say this because it's against the regulation." "Well, here's something you can't say because it's a secret." "You can't tell him that, because he's not cleared to know that."

From Genius

“Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners.”

From Good Reads

George Carlin: "There is 1 group that takes itself a little too seriously. And it doesn't take a lot of imagination to piss off a feminist. All you got to do is run into NOW headquarters or Ms. Magazine and say: "Hey, which 1 of you cute cupcakes want to come home with me, cook me a meal, and give me a blowjob?" 

From what I wrote about George Carlin and feminists from back in 2019: 

"Yeah, if you're trying to piss off a feminist or any woman who is to the left of I don't know Phyllis Schlafly ( just to throw out a name ) that would probably do the trick. But how big a population could American women who are to the left of Phyllis Schlafly be anyway, 70-80%: oh wait, we're only talking about out of a 100, so I could see where George might be onto something here."

From The New Democrat 

I think a major point, if not the whole point of George Carlin's comedy, was about the truth, personal freedom, and individuality, which both include freedom of speech. 

And George Carlin's idea of freedom of speech is not the freedom to be liked and popular. He wasn't interested in being part of some clique in high school, that had most of the cool people in it, who were really just clones of their cult hero. He thought people should know the truth and be free to think and act for themselves, even and especially when the truth was hard to hear, especially from the most oversensitive among us. Even if that offended the hell out of overprivileged people in America who thought they know what's best for everyone because they have more money and education than most people. 

On the outside, whether you are talking about radical, militant feminists, or radical, new-left hippies from the 1960s and 70s on the far-left, (who are called WOKE today) or people who were called the Christian-Right in the 1970s and 80s, even 90s, who became the Tea Party during the 2010s, who are MAGA today (and I'm talking about MAGA militants) you would think they would be in a cultural war and it would like Israeli Zionists, versus the Arab Nationalists in Palestine. You would think that the only thing that they have in common, is that they want to destroy each other. Preferably before the other side destroys them. (Unless they're suicidal) 

But WOKE and MAGA actually have a lot in common. They both think that they know what's best for every American and what it means to be decent, moral person. And anyone who disagrees with them is some type of bigot (according to WOKE) or Un-American. (According to MAGA)  

George Carlin died in 2008. But it's safe to say he wasn't a fan of the Christian-Right. It's about as safe to say that is it's about as safe to say that if you jump in a lake, there's a real shot of you getting wet. I mean the mean the man was a freakin Atheist, for crying out loud. He wasn't a fan of Islamism either. But you just look at his material against militant feminism and left-wing political correctness, it's also safe to say that he wasn't a fan of what's called WOKE today. Not that he saw America as some type of utopia or something, but that wasn't trying to take down the system and try to replace America with something that's a hell of a lot less individualistic a lot more authoritarian. 

To go back to my original point about Carlin, he believed in the truth. Which is sort of like saying that someone believes in clean water and fresh air. You would think that would go without saying. But welcome to America, the land of the over protected, even from ourselves. (If the far-left or far-right ever got complete control of this country) And George Carlin was completely against that type of political and social collectivism. 

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