youtube YouTube Stewart Lee 9 Political Correctness 41st Best Stand Up ever

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters offer it as a sharp, funny answer to 'PC gone mad' and anti-woke arguments in discussions of language policy.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

MrSenseisnotcommon

Topic

political correctness comedy

Format

comedy

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2014–2022

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From the original HN conversations

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• Obviously there's much to laugh at in this initiative and a legitimate worry about thought being policed. That said, if you are open to changing your mind, there's an excellent 9-minute bit of stand-up comedy from Stewart Lee about political correctness you might want to …

• He's right that we're drowning in political correctness... Trump's casual racism, misogyny, and conspiracy theories are without precedent... That's some impressive cognitive dissonance, sama. Those are two aspects of the same thought happening in Trump's mind. EDIT: Stewart Lee's smart (and amusing!) bit on the …

• Stewart Lee, another British institution, telling you all you need to know about ‘wokeness’, 10+ years ago. [VIDEO] It’s extra charged in the UK because ‘PC gone mad’, please don’t show me inconvenient truth types, map neatly onto Brexit supporters.