{"id":10134,"date":"2016-05-24T20:29:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T01:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=10134"},"modified":"2016-05-24T20:31:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T01:31:01","slug":"john-cleese-on-oversensitivity-taking-pc-way-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/john-cleese-on-oversensitivity-taking-pc-way-too-far\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cleese on oversensitivity &#038; taking PC way too far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_10135\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10135\" style=\"width: 774px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/john-cleese-on-oversensitivity-taking-pc-way-too-far\/screen-shot-2016-05-24-at-21-23-10\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10135\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-24-at-21.23.10.jpg\" alt=\"John Cleese\" width=\"774\" height=\"618\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-24-at-21.23.10.jpg 774w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-24-at-21.23.10-225x180.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-24-at-21.23.10-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-24-at-21.23.10-768x613.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: The Big Think<\/figcaption><\/figure>John Cleese points out that all humour is critical \u2013\u00a0even the inclusive type and gives the example: &#8220;How do you make God laugh? Tell him your plans.&#8221; But in today&#8217;s environment of hyper-sensitivity over political correctness, many instances of humour are now viewed as unkind. <\/p>\n<p>The reasons for this may be, as Cleese relates, this: &#8220;Robin Skinner said something very interesting to me: if people cannot control their own emotions they have to start trying to control other people&#8217;s behaviour.&#8221; And well, see the rest of what he says for yourself. It&#8217;s a quick watch, and worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QAK0KXEpF8U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Cleese points out that all humour is critical \u2013\u00a0even the inclusive type and gives the example: &#8220;How do you make God laugh? Tell him your plans.&#8221; But in today&#8217;s environment of hyper-sensitivity over political correctness, many instances of humour are now viewed as unkind. The reasons for this may be, as Cleese relates, this: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/john-cleese-on-oversensitivity-taking-pc-way-too-far\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Cleese on oversensitivity &#038; taking PC way too far&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,13,664],"tags":[1493,653,2399],"class_list":["post-10134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-art-culture","category-happiness","tag-control","tag-humour","tag-political-correctness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10134"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10139,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10134\/revisions\/10139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}