Tyler Cowen: preference

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…Oh, yeah, well, it’s hugely damaging and you can see it. So like, Amy Schumer, who I think is a perfectly nice person, I have nothing against her. Her Netflix special got terrible reviews because she trades in a lot of that stuff. Their own viewing audience turned against it and once they found that out, they actually changed their rating system, because they didn’t want the public actually screwing with their rating system. So they don’t do it by stars anymore, which is, I think, kind of interesting. But yes, there’s been a flip. Look, political correctness is the death of comedy. Think about it. I would argue that George Carlin is the greatest comedian of all time. He would literally be banned from campuses right now. He would be thought of as an old, white, patriarchal guy coming around telling them these scary thoughts. That’s a huge problem and that is not good, it’s not good for comedy, it’s not good for society. I’m older than you are, when I was a kid most of my friends were not allowed to listen to George Carlin because he was too radical as a smart aleck. And today, you would not be allowed to listen to him because he’s too much of a patriarch. Right, exactly. But really, that’s powerful. That’s a powerful notion right there. And it’s true.…

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