Terence McKenna Quotes

Political correctness has changed everything. People forget that political correctness used to be called spastic gay talk.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

What's politically correct a lot of times is not funny.

Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.

I have a distinct memory, dating back to 1989 or so, of sitting around with my college dorm mates talking about a new term that was popping up everywhere: 'political correctness.'

The definition of comedy is 'unsafe space' - you can't control what people laugh at.

One can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!"

Every group needs a comedian. A comic who is politically incorrect at the Berkeley campus might slay them at a Klan rally.

Secretly everybody's getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren't called racist.

There's this whole debate about whether being PC is just being like political or whether it's just being a good person, and I feel like that's something that people need to take into consideration because, you know, people are like, "Oh PC culture is ruining America." It's being a good person. If you're offended when people are not, you know, sexist or racist, then you're a part of the problem.

The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have doctrines of political correctness, against which one offends at one's peril: by means of a considerable circular logic, such offences mark you as reactionary and therefore a bad person. Therefore if you say people are bad, you are bad.

At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say right on motherfuckers!

Things have happened, having to do with many things including political correctness, where people are so worried about being politically correct that they are unable to function.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism . . . The only way to react is to get up in the morning and start the day by saying four or five vastly politically incorrect things before breakfast!

Political correctness is the the inability to state certain truths because they may offend certain people

We're gonna get away from political correctness .

Humour very often consists of shrewd perceptions about people. It's usually fun at someone's expense. Nowadays if you're funny at anybody's expense they run to the UN and say, "I must have an ombudsman to protect me." You hardly dare have a shrewd perception about anybody.

I remember a time when it was ok to make fun of politicians and powerful people. Now, it's not ok anymore. We've forgotten how to laugh.

In my day everything wasn't so PC.

A lot of it is backlash against all this political correctness that's going on.

I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.

The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.

I think political correctness is a moving line.

Humor is reason gone mad.

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?