Clint Eastwood's war on PC language

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By April MacIntyre Feb 27, 2009, 17:41 GMT

Multi-talented Clint Eastwood, 79, is a little tired of overly-PC people stepping on his joke time. US actor Clint Eastwood. Eastwood is part of a segment of the population that feels political correctness has neutered modern life, rendering a generation of people who can neither take nor tell a good joke. EPA/JOSHUA GATES WEISBERG

US actor Clint Eastwood. Eastwood is part of a segment of the population that feels political correctness has neutered modern life, rendering a generation of people who can neither take nor tell a good joke. EPA/JOSHUA GATES WEISBERGEastwood is part of a segment of the population that feels political correctness has neutered modern life, rendering a generation of people who can neither take nor tell a good joke.Eastwood was interviewed by German magazine Der Spiegel that the younger generations of people waste so much time being overly sensitive in speech."People have lost their sense of humor," he told Germany's Der Spiegel magazine."In former times we constantly made jokes about different races...You can only tell them today with one hand over your mouth otherwise you will be insulted as a racist...I find that ridiculous. In those earlier days every friendly clique had a 'Sam the Jew' or 'Jose the Mexican' - but we didn't think anything of it or have a racist
thought. It was normal that we made jokes based on our nationality or ethnicity. That was never a problem. I don't want to be politically correct. We're all spending too much time and energy trying to be politically correct about everything."

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