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...Danson found out. So did comedian Jackie Mason, who raised a ruckus at a police banquet in New York City when he referred to members of Mayor Dinkins' administration by the Yiddish term shvartzer. Mason, who is preparing another one-man Broadway show this season, entitled (what else?) Politically Incorrect, got into a similar scrape four years ago, but this time has responded more defiantly. ''I positively don't apologize,'' he said. ''I'm telling a joke here.'' Telling jokes has always been somewhat at odds with the p.c. ethos. To be politically correct, one must be constantly sensitive...
...endorsement of politically correct attitudes, points out Jack Nachbar, professor of popular culture at Ohio's Bowling Green State University. ''If you have a bigot put in front of you and made to look ridiculous,'' he says, ''then that becomes an attack on bigotry. Beavis and Butt-Head, politically incorrect as they are, are also idiots.'' The problem, of course, is that preteen children -- part of the show's audience -- are not very good at catching the distinction. That is why removing the program from the early evening hours, when most young kids watch, is a better solution than eviscerating...
...land up into small, unproductive plots and distributed it to landless Africans. As a result, Zimbabwe's agriculture is in shambles today and its economy a well-documented ruin after years of prosperity. The West, however, said nothing about this theft of land, fearing that it would be "politically incorrect" to criticize racially motivated land reform. For too long Mugabe has piggybacked on the sentiments of those sympathetic to Africa's liberation struggle; he is in a sense the creation of Western liberals. Charles Wukasch, Austin, Texas...
...only was "The United States of Lyncherdom" politically incorrect, it still is. It blames one of the most shameful aspects of American history on moral correctness, the herd mentality that prevailed among Americans who regarded themselves as right thinking. Twain decided that the country, or at least his readership, was not ready for that essay. It wasn't published until 1923, when Twain's literary executor slipped it, hedgily edited, into a posthumous collection. Not until 2000 did it appear in its original form, and then in an obscure, scholarly publication. It takes a genius to strike the funny bone...
...McCain's more traditional abortion rhetoric is leavened by his carefully maintained political brand as a "maverick" politician. Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL, believes that has led many voters to make incorrect assumptions about McCain's views on abortion and is one reason he is now courting pro-choice women, particularly Hillary Clinton's supporters. "People think that he's a maverick and that must mean that he's a moderate," Keenan says. "And they come to the conclusion that if you're a moderate, you must be pro-choice...