What do I like about Seinfeld<\/em>? Perhaps it is the utterly zany quality of the Jewish humor. Here<\/a> is some of it in Yiddish (with subtitles).<\/span><\/p>\n And the political incorrectness I like. But things have changed in America, so much so that Jerry Seinfeld nowadays refuses to perform<\/a> before college audiences. <\/span><\/p>\n Indeed, it must be jarring for a boomer like Seinfeld, who went to college in the early 70s, when students were debating real issues freely, to confront today\u2019s college campuses, where students often invent issues about which to be aggrieved, many times on behalf of other parties, and then have to find "free speech zones" in which to discuss them.<\/span><\/p>\n Consider the uproar<\/a> over a statue of a man talking to a woman at a Texas college, which some decided was a depiction of "mansplaining," or a man patronizingly explaining something to a woman. Paul Tadlock, the 79-year-old sculptor, said the piece \u2014 done for 20 years before its offense was "discovered" \u2014 merely depicted his daughter, a student at the time, talking to a friend.<\/span><\/p>\n Then there were the students at UC-Berkeley, who called for "an occupation of syllabi in the social sciences and humanities," which sounds serious. Rodrigo Kazuo and Meg Perret felt aggrieved<\/a> that a classical philosophy course had the audacity to cover actual thought leaders from classical philosophy, including Plato and Aristotle \u2014 because they all happened to be white men<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n And earlier this year a male student at Portland, Oregon\u2019s Reed College was removed from the discussion portion of his freshman humanities class<\/a> for questioning the statistics on college sexual assaults and challenging whether or not there is such a thing as a "rape culture."<\/span><\/p>\n Why on earth would a comedian like Seinfeld, whose career has focused on humorously pointing out absurdities bring his act to such an utterly humorless and incorrigibly politically correct setting?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n By the way, ever notice the similarity between these two guys?<\/span><\/p>\n I confess to being a fan of this TV series many of whose episodes are now over 20 years old. I have seen every episode numerous times. I am not a student of the series as I am a student of the great Twilight Zone series, but then numerous episodes of Rod Serling's Twilight Zone, … Continue reading “On Seinfeld<\/i>“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,242,120,432],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americana","category-humor","category-media-matters","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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