Clint Eastwood dares tell Emperor Obama the Emperor wears no clothes
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Eastwood thinks
political correctness
has made
society humourless
YAHOO News
February 27th, 2009
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Acting legend Clint Eastwood ,
79, apparently believes that
political correctness has rendered
modern society humourless,
for he accuses younger generations
of spending too much time trying
to avoid being offensive.
The Dirty Harry star insists that
he should be able to tell harmless
jokes about nationality without
fearing that people may brand him
“a racist”.
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“People have lost
their sense of humour.
In former times we constantly
made jokes about different races.
You can only tell them today
with one hand over your mouth
or you will be insulted as a racist,”
the Daily Express
quoted him as saying.
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“I find that ridiculous.
In those earlier days every friendly
clique had a ‘Sam the Jew’ or
‘Jose the Mexican’ -
but we didn’t think anything
of it or have a racist thought.
It was just normal that we made
jokes based on our nationality
or ethnicity.
That was never a problem.
I don’t want to
be politically correct.
We’re all spending too much
time and energy trying to be
politically correct about
everything,”
he added.
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