Cancel culture has gotten so extreme you can’t tell lengthy scatological jokes in class anymore
I’m sure this isn’t the least meritorious complaint about CANCEL CULTURE ever — the competition is just too extensive — but it has to be up there:
James Carville, the outspoken, ever-entertaining [sic. –ed] political consultant known for his love of New Orleans and his LSU Tigers, ended a teaching gig at his alma mater after souring on a campus culture that made him “scared to death in my job.”
So what was it that caused these snowflakes to react negatively to poor James:
The Ragin’ Cajun, who rose to fame as a top aide to President Bill Clinton during his 1992 campaign, told New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd that complaints from a student about an off-color joke in his class a few years ago earned him a visit from a dean — and prompted him to take it up a notch by reciting the famously raunchy “Aristocrats” joke.
It’s tragic that LSU students are being deprived of this world-class pedagogy.
And gee, I wonder why some women might have found him a little creepy?
The experience led him to step back from teaching, he said.
“This was L.S. freaking U., not Oberlin,” Carville told the New York Times. “It was terrible. I wouldn’t take the coeds to dinner after class. I would take the male students. I was scared to death in my job. I was like: ‘I don’t need L.S.U.’s money. I don’t need to drive up there and listen to that crap.’ I just said: ‘That’s it. I’m done. This is not for me.’”
I CAN’T EVEN TAKE THE CO-EDS OUR FOR DINNER says 124-year-old man, wondering why the dean might raise some questions about his “teaching.” How can we not miss you if you won’t go away? [via]