Reply #6: I hope so. I miss offensive comedy. We are so screwed up as a country [View All]

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that we have people whining about "politically correct" requirements of social behavior but trashing comedy and artistic creations that aren't politically correct. It is supposed to be the other way around. We are supposed to behave as individuals while expressing controversial ideas through art.

I personally have come to believe that our society is driven by immature guilt. We as a nation hate people to put restrictions on us--hate for people to tell us to act like grown-ups--and we therefore hate the artwork that exposes our immaturity. Art is meant to reveal us, yet when rap music reveals violent undertones towards cops or degrading attitudes towards women, we try to condemn the art rather than the reality the art is illuminating. It is guilt--we do not want to be exposed, we do not want our bigotries and biases to be exposed, because then we have to face them, maybe even correct them. So instead of correcting ourselves, we attack the art that exposes us.

That's the real sin of censorship. The Founders didn't want "Free Speech" so that we could all get off on Internet porn. The Founders wanted "Free Speech" because speech is only limited when it accurately reveals something those in power want to keep hidden.