{"id":46084,"date":"2022-11-23T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T06:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46084"},"modified":"2022-11-22T09:56:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T14:56:23","slug":"qotd-humour-and-political-correctness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/11\/23\/qotd-humour-and-political-correctness\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Humour and political correctness"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>As a bumptious adolescent in upstate New York, I stumbled on a British collection of Oscar Wilde&#8217;s epigrams in a secondhand bookstore. It was an electrifying revelation, a text that I studied like the bible. What bold, scathing wit, cutting through the sentimental fog of those still rigidly conformist early 1960s, when good girls were expected to simper and defer.<\/p>\n<p>But I never fully understood Wilde&#8217;s caustic satire of Victorian philanthropists and humanitarians until the present sludgy tide of political correctness began flooding government, education, and media over the past two decades. Wilde saw the insufferable arrogance and preening sanctimony in his era&#8217;s self-appointed guardians of morality.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re back to the hypocrisy sweepstakes, where gestures of virtue are as formalized as <em>kabuki<\/em>. Humor has been assassinated. An off word at work or school will get you booted to the gallows. This is the graveyard of liberalism, whose once noble ideals have turned spectral and vampiric.<\/p>\n<p>Camille Paglia, <a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.us\/camille-paglia-hillary-trump\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Hillary wants Trump to win again&#8221;, <em>Spectator USA<\/em><\/a>, 2018-12-04.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a bumptious adolescent in upstate New York, I stumbled on a British collection of Oscar Wilde&#8217;s epigrams in a secondhand bookstore. It was an electrifying revelation, a text that I studied like the bible. 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