Image via WikipediaABBA And Hitler.
I sometimes joke that if I were permitted just one trip in a time machine I wouldn't go back and kill Hitler, I'd go back and kill ABBA. I was recently informed that making jokes about Hitler was in poor taste. I tried to explain that I was joking about ABBA not Hitler but met deaf ears.
Of course I know that ABBA can't be compared to Hitler. Of course I do. They are loathesome but not mass killer loathesome. My politically correct culture has trouble discerning the difference between the subject and the joke comparison. Key words have been implanted in tiny minds, the reaction is Pavlovian.
Political correctness was useful for a time, bringing attention to the way some words are used derisively often by habit not intent, explaining that these words can be hurtful no matter how they are used. Like most fashions it went too far. Just like a glimpse of g string became low cut jeans that exhibited all, so political correctness has become blunt and overbearing.
There is talk of ABBA reforming. I'll continue to compare this event to Hitler putting the party back together again. Like any fashion PC will go by the wayside, people look back and wonder what made them show off their knickers, what made them lose their ability to see a joke for what it is.
Parkstreet.
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Of course I know that ABBA can't be compared to Hitler. Of course I do. They are loathesome but not mass killer loathesome. My politically correct culture has trouble discerning the difference between the subject and the joke comparison. Key words have been implanted in tiny minds, the reaction is Pavlovian.
Political correctness was useful for a time, bringing attention to the way some words are used derisively often by habit not intent, explaining that these words can be hurtful no matter how they are used. Like most fashions it went too far. Just like a glimpse of g string became low cut jeans that exhibited all, so political correctness has become blunt and overbearing.
There is talk of ABBA reforming. I'll continue to compare this event to Hitler putting the party back together again. Like any fashion PC will go by the wayside, people look back and wonder what made them show off their knickers, what made them lose their ability to see a joke for what it is.
Parkstreet.
http://www.parkstreetquotes.blogspot.com/
3 comments:
Don't worry your pretty little head, ABBA is not reuniting despite this ridiculous worldwide media frenzy
My head ain't that pretty, and ABBA reforming really wasn't the point of the article, you've just illustrated the point of the article.
Parkstreet.
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