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Thread #91590   Message #1744440
Posted By: John MacKenzie
20-May-06 - 08:57 AM
Thread Name: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
I bet many of the PC posters anonymous or otherwise laugh at TV programmes like The Office and Fawlry Towers. The basic premise of these programmes is to mock and laugh at obsessive compulsives, and socially inadequate people.
Were your next door neighbour to behave like Basil Fawlty, Alan Partridge, or some other OTT caricature would you laugh at them?
Surely this would be mockery, so why not complain about these TV caricatures on the grounds that they portray inadequate personalities, and we shouldn't laugh at them?
Most people have their foibles, and are mocked for them, even in many cases the sufferer mocks themselves, should we stop them laughing at themselves?
Yes many things are PC nowadays and we no longer laugh at them thankfully, but there is no reason apart from smug self righteousness for denying human nature on the grounds of political correctness.
Giok