Brutally Honest Rant - 09/19/07

Brutally Honest Audio Rant: Comedy and the REAL Meaning of PC
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09/19/07

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(Music intro – “American Idiot Remix” – by Green Day and David Matthews 2)

Good evening and welcome to this week’s Brutally Honest Rant. I’m David Matthews 2, writer of the weekly online column Brutally Honest.

When it comes to minority groups in the United States, there is one that is both the smallest group possible and the one that is often attacked, marginalized, and discriminated against.

Anyone want to guess what that group is?

Well obviously I’m not talking about Christians… because they’re not the smallest group possible. And contrary to the ongoing delusions of certain Christians, they’re NOT the ones often attacked, marginalized and discriminated against. In fact, Christianity itself is guilty of BEING the persecutors more times then they ever are persecuted against.

In fact you can toss out pretty much every organized religion from this category as well. Toss out the atheists and agnostics as well, although they actually come CLOSE to fitting the description, and some of them may even know the correct answer to the question!

Likewise, toss out the gender groups and the racial groups and even the ethnic groups.

You want to know what is the SMALLEST minority group possible and the one often attacked and marginalized and discriminated against?

It is the minority group of ONE. It’s the individual.

Think about it for a moment. How many times has individuality been trashed? How many times has it taken a back seat to some whims and demands of any number of groups? “The needs of the many…” how many times has that been invoked in one way or another?

We treat individuality as a luxury at best… and at worst we treat it as a crime against humanity.

Comedian Kathy Griffin probably gave the best example of how badly we treat individuality in her recent speech at the Emmy Awards. When she got an award for her cable show “Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List” she announced that she would NOT give thanks to Jesus, because she said that Jesus had the LEAST to do with her winning the award. She then announced that the Emmy statue itself would be her new god.

Well obviously that invoked the WRATH of the self-righteous goon squad over in the Catholic Church, because you don’t DARE trash Jesus while the Catholic goon squad is around! They asked for and easily got their demands for censorship, even though the rest of the thinking populace was wondering what the hell the fuss was all about!

Well I’ll TELL you what it’s all about! It’s all about two things.

The first is the REAL definition of “PC”. People keep on saying that “PC” stands for “politically correct”… well that’s a load of BULL! You want to know what “PC” really stands for? POWER and CONTROL! That’s how it is used! You have some special interest group that gets “offended” by something someone else says and they use THAT as the means to seize POWER over the masses and thus CONTROL what they say and think!

Good squad leader William Donahue has been wielding that power UNCHECKED of late, going so far as to actually threaten to HARM someone who dared disagree with his goon squad mentality. THAT’S what I mean by power and control, folks.

Oh, and by the way, thanks Mr. Donahue for showing your TRUE Christian motives on camera. If those are the rules that you wish to go by, then don’t be surprised if someone takes you up on that offer to “take it outside” and gives you the judgment that has been LONG overdue! Just don’t expect any sympathy afterwards because you have already publicly forfeited any and all claims of injury.

And the second thing is this… the whole phony “outrage” excuse being foisted on us by the Catholic goon squad is to keep people from understanding the TRUTH… and the truth is that Kathy Griffin IS RIGHT! Not about making the Emmy statue her god, mind you, but in her assertion that Jesus is the LEAST responsible for her winning that statue!

Let’s get brutally honest here… I am SICK AND TIRED of hearing people marginalize individual achievement!

Kathy Griffin didn’t win that Emmy statue because some higher power so declared her. She won because OTHER PEOPLE decided that she was the best option of the group! She won because of HER TALENT! HER talent! Not God’s talent! Not Jesus’ talent! HERS!

You want to know if her win was TRULY the will of some higher power? If NOBODY voted for her at all and yet her name showed up on all the ballots. THAT would be a sign of a higher power at work!

Oh, but wait a minute, that would also be called “voter fraud”, wouldn’t it? Boy the almighty just can’t catch a break, huh?

But we don’t really RECOGNIZE individual achievement! We marginalize it! We condemn individual success just like we condemn and marginalize everything else about individuality.

We have sports teams that actually believe that their wins are ONLY because GOD is on their side, but their losses are somehow all because of mistakes made by INDIVIDUALS. The funny part is that a SMART person would to it in reverse… give credit for individuals and blame God for their mistakes. But then again, thinking and belief really have a hard time getting along.

I’ve been talking about this for quite some time on a variety of subjects, but little by little we are losing any kind of meaningful sense of SELF. Liberals and conservatives argue over which collectivist mentality is superior, but they both seem to tacitly agree that individuality in and of itself is EVIL.

Little by little, they both try to DEMONIZE individuality. And the BEST way to do that is to deny individual achievement. YOU can’t achieve anything… it’s all gotta come through some external factor. You have to thank your parents or your friends for being who you are… or you have to thank some kind of deity for it. You can’t say that it was YOUR talent and YOUR imagination and YOUR skills that do it. Oh no… that’s somehow WRONG, but they can’t understand WHY it is.

And THAT is what Kathy Griffin was exposing when she exclaimed that Jesus had the LEAST to do with her Emmy award. She’s telling all of those people who start out their acceptance speeches with praising God and praising Jesus to get over themselves. How you were brought up only plays a small part of the things that make you a success. It’s using what YOU have that makes it unique. YOU make it what it is. Not God. Not your parents or your friends. YOU do. It’s all on YOU because YOU are the one that put it all together and made it happen.

If you’re going to blame individuals for mistakes then you also have to credit them for their successes. You’re not going to get good behavior from people if all that you’re doing is demonizing what they do.

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If you think about it, every exercise in the virtues of individuality seem to all come from comedians. Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Rusty Warren, Sam Kinison… sure they take the lumps for what they say, but it’s really ironic that some of the most serious and profound debates about our look at society come from people who make us laugh.

Maybe instead of needing more churches, we need more comedy clubs. At least the comedian has better hours. Who really wants to get up early on the weekends anyway?

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Brutally Honest is a Get Brutal production; all opinions expressed are those of the commentator, and may or may not be shared by the online provider. This is David Matthews 2 saying good night, and I’ll speak with you soon!

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