Chelsea Handler Says Political Correctness Isn't Working Anymore

"We’re better off just saying what’s on our mind."

Comedian Chelsea Handler has written an oped for the Daily Beast critical of political correctness.

Handler writes, "as the sixth child of a Jew and a Mormon, there’s nothing more delicious to me than making fun of Jews, Mormons, other Mormon-Jews, and every other ethnicity under the sun."

And then Handler asks, "What has political correctness really accomplished?"

Recently, I filmed a documentary series for Netflix exploring four different subject matters: racism, marriage, Silicon Valley, and drugs. For the episode on racism, I had a roundtable discussion with representatives from the Media Action Network for Asian Americans, the Anti-Defamation League, the NAACP, the National Hispanic Media Coalition, American Indians in Film & Television, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. We were there to discuss the way I and some others in the entertainment industry often talk about—and make stereotypical fun of—Asians, Jews, Blacks, American Indians, and Muslims, not necessarily in that order (and by no means is that list all-inclusive). We had an honest discussion about whether or not it’s funny, appropriate, helpful, or hurtful to traffic in ethnic, racial, and religious stereotypes.

But Handler's plea isn't entirely politically incorrect. She says, "there’s a vast difference between white officers chasing down and killing unarmed black men versus making a joke about black people being late."

Shouldn't everything on the table if our culture is going to really ditch political correctness?

"This is America, after all, and the First Amendment deserves to come first."

This is certainly true. Let's see if Chelsea leads by example.

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