priceless analysis...
"When people can't control their own emotions, they have to try to control other people's behaviour."

The only critique is he said PC started out with a good goal - it did not.

Excellent, Thor!

"When people can't control their own emotions, they have to try to control other people's behaviour." Yes!

I explain it that it is a characteristic of those easily offended that they are seeking external validation, that they think so poorly of their own place in the world that they have to go outside of themselves to gain substance (second-handers), they do not see themselves as individuals and must attach to something else (collectivism). Last time a guy said I offended him, I asked, "Have you thought about seeing a therapist?"

Before TV (yes I'm that old) there was a radio show called "Can You Top This" where four seasoned joke-tellers (Joe Laury Jr. was the only name I can recall) would tell jokes and funny stories. Each time one guy told one, it would remind the others of another. They were masters of ethnic accents--Irish, Jewish, Chinese--it didn't matter, and i'd be rolling on the floor clutching my belly laughing. No profanity, but nothing was sacred. I wish we could go back to those times. I really believe if people felt secure in their own skins, they could laugh at themselves and not take offense when we laughed along with them.

Comedy draws a fine line between mean and funny. Once you step over that line, if you do it right, becoming mean leads to hilarity. I think that it is quite natural when encountering Pollyanna, to say "Gimme a break" and see what you can do to get her to slip on a banana peel. True, PC can lead to 1984. But what is the worse thing about 1984? Everyone is fed and clothed. Everyone has a job. And everyone is BORED. No creativity, no enjoyment even in sex and worst of all no fun!

I liked his "God joke"...gonna have to tell that one to the wife.