Sure it's only a bit of craic

What's the difference between a yoghurt and an Australian? A yoghurt has culture. Well it's not very funny I know, but it is a joke I like to tell my Australian friends. All a bit of fun you know. It's not the worst of them though. I mean I know a lot of people who consider themselves left wing or liberal and still like to make racist and xenophobic jokes, but it's all a good laugh you know.
Sure why not show that you are not a politically correct stick in the mud by having a go at blacks or gays. It's all meant in good fun.

So it's all grand we can joke about Poles and Chinks all we like because sure we don't really mean it. Of course we aren't creating a climate of oppression, it's all meant in good fun. We're intelligent and well intentioned people so we can make racist jokes. It's only other people who actually mean it. I mean, the Irish never oppressed anyone did they? God no, we are the most unfortunate shower of potato deprived bastards ever to walk the planet. Sure if somebody doesn't know we're joking when we call them a nigger it's because they have no sense of humour.

Racism, xenophobia, sexism, homophobia, it's all just a bit of craic sure. I mean, if a white European man can't have a bit of a laugh at somebody else's expense then what is the world coming to? Because remember folks, whatever we think about our past, our present as part of the neoimperialist regime that is the European Union sort of eradicates any sense of us being one of the most impressed people on earth.

And sure don't the right thinking and progressive minds scorn when they hear somebody giving out about asylum seekers. They look on the utterer of such comments as nothing but an ignorant racist. But they themselves can have a go at both Jews and Muslims because it's only a bit of craic. I mean what harm is there in it?

We live in the age of post-political correctness. We live in a post age. Everything is post something. It's as if as a species we have given up on progressing any further, as if we have bought into Fukayama's myth about the End of History. Political Correctness itself was a very Orwellian concept from the beginning, the idea that we could eradicate discrimination by eliminating discriminatory language. It was farcical to begin with and only gave more ammunition to bigots. First of all we were faced by the old fashioned sort of stand up comedian giving out about Political Correctness because people criticised him for making jokes about Pakis, Micks and beating his wife. These characters would go on talk shows and lament about how it was all only a bit of fun and people shouldn't take it so seriously.

Then bigots realised something wonderful, political correctness was actual the perfect vehicle for their bigotry. Niggers was substituted for asylum seekers or African and they weren't discriminated against because of the colour of their skin but apparently because the government gave them buggies. It's true, sure we've all heard about how your cousin's, girlfriend's, sister's, friend's, husband's, brother lives next door to a family of them and they all have eight thousand Euro buggies even if they don't have kids. Sure aren't the government only encouraging them to breed by giving them buggies! And then they sell the kids to Angelina Jolie and make a fortune. But it's not that they're black at all, certainly not! No these are the views expressed by well intentioned citizens who are only concerned about how their tax money is spent.

Homophobia is a tricky one. I mean if you speak out against it people think you're gay. If you're against homophobia then everyone assumes that you are a cock jockey. So let me state for the record that I love pussy, mad about it, can't get enough of it. Would it eat if for breakfast, lunch and dinner. So if I stick up for the gays don't get the wrong idea, I'm completely into birds and only birds. I just think about tits and pussy all day long. So now have stated clearly that I love pussy, I now feel confident to take a stand on behalf of the poor marginalised gays. Not of course that anybody discriminates against them any more. No, equal opportunities and all that. Unless of course they want to marry or adopt. Because it's just that you see we hear so much these days about the sanctity of marriage and two men can't adopt a baby because well, you know the family is a the heart of our constitution, don't you know. I mean the government will shit all over the constitution to surrender more and more power to the politburo of the EU but we have to make sure that gays can't have a normal family life because it's enshrined in the constitution. Not, of course, that straight people bother getting married any more. It seems the only ones who want to get married are gay couples. Two other people no matter how unsuitable they are for each other can get married and live miserably ever after but gays can't. Also the level of unplanned pregnancies is through the roof but it is OK for a straight person to have a baby even if they didn't mean to and don't want it but two gay men or women in a loving relationship can't plan to adopt and raise a child. But there are of course plenty of reasonable explanations that all fit inside the realm of political correctness.

And as for the Muslims? Well you know that their culture and ours aren't compatible. I mean nobody ever discriminates against them it seems, in fact I have often been told that it is them who discriminate against us. So once again unrestrained bigotry slips on the veil of political correctness and can freely vent its views in the mainstream media without fear of reprimand. But using all the right words and pressing all the right buttons the modern bigot will find any number of platforms for their message. But you know the media has a responsibility to air all of these views. It's about balance you know. At least that's what they tell us. They don't it seems have any responsibility to ever clear up any of these issues apart from the occasional token effort to present a view from the other side of the fence. They also never attempt to portray such bigotry as anything other than inevitable and not the result of a predatory capitalistic system which aims to create division by turning people on each other like scavenging animals while an elite can carefully control the world while the most of us are so busy venting hate at people who are just as or more marginalised than us.

So why lament the decline of political correctness if it never achieved anything but to encourage discrimination? Well, it is not the decline of political correctness that I am lamenting but rather the fact that those of us who should know better can still make light of the situations of other people while ignoring the challenges they face on a daily basis and think it makes us cool. It's just a bit fucking juvenile really.