When Jews like Lenny Bruce and Al Goldstein were on the way up in America, it was a great thing to be offensive. In the 1950s and 1960s, Jews led the fight for free speech. Now they lead the fight for political correctness aka censorship. Now it is a bad thing to be offensive. When did this change? We used to celebrate transgression in popular culture.
OCWEEKLY: “LA Weekly Interim Editor Hillel Aron Suspended Over “Extremely Offensive” Tweets”
Not only is there nothing in those tweets that offends me, I don’t recall being offended once in my life. Ergo, I regard all people who get offended as weak.
When I was growing up, being gay was horrible. Now it is celebrated.
