Unicorns and hypocrites – The Augusta Chronicle

Are only hypocrites allowed to be politically incorrect?

I frequently hear people complaining that things are too politically correct these days; people should just get over themselves and stop being angry and offended.

So, a couple days ago, I was chatting via email with a good friend, until I made some sarcastic comments about Ronald Reagan. The next response from this friend was a sudden, super serious, Stop trying to pick a fight!

I was floored. This person claims to hate politically correct people. My response was, So, political incorrectness stops at Reagan? I still havent received a reply.

I have very little filter and adore political incorrectness. I dream of finding truly politically incorrect people impervious to offense. What I find is myself being invariably snookered by every new person who waltzes in howling to the rafters how much they dislike politically correct people.

Ill happily listen to whoever berates both Clintons, Obama, Nancy Pelosi and the politically correct. But Ive learned the hardest way that the moment I say something sarcastic about Joseph McCarthy or Nixon or Rush Limbaugh or George W. Bush or Trump, the conversation quickly derails.

My wish in life is to know lots of people who can happily handle an eternal, wide-ranging, politically incorrect conversation laced with sarcasm about politics, social issues, religion everything.

But I find myself continually wondering, does anyone know political incorrectness isnt a one-way street? Does anyone know, if you truly want political incorrectness to reign supreme, you have to accept it as happily as you dish it? Does anyone know that, if this letter upsets them, theyre as politically-correct as everyone else?

My sad reality is, when I meet someone claiming to hate political correctness, acting like theyre immune to all verbal offense, I think: yeah, and unicorns exist and hypocrites arent a dime a dozen.

Nathan Kirby

Augusta

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