He was a far leftist snd wouldve approved of the things happening today
I'm not so sure. He called political correctness 'fascism pretending to be manners', and in the later years of his life he made repeated complaints about how he didn't do college audiences anymore because they couldn't handle anything edgy.
He said 'nigger' on stage, he attacked feminism, decried 'pussification', told his audience that people who tried to control their language were in fact trying to control the way they think.
I think Carlin was a centrist with a contrarian streak that motivated him to always attack the popular thing. If he didn't grow old and die, I think he'd have found himself on the same political and intellectual journey many of us have made over the last decade.
I don't know everything about him but I do know that he called out feminists for pushing into the corporate world and imitating men, because didn't think putting on a suit and sitting in an office was the highest calling in life.
in his later years and made many anti white jokes
I'm aware of his 'lame white motherfuckers' statement, but I'm also aware of him saying this:
"There is absolutely nothing wrong with the word "Nigger" in and of itself. It's the racist asshole who's using it that you ought to be concerned about. We don't mind when Richard Pryer or Eddie Murphy say it. Why? Because we know they're not racist - They're Niggers!"
Make that same joke today and your show and your deals are cancelled.
thoughts on kurt cobain and mlk?
I'm not sure what either of those people have to do with Carlin.
Cobain was an alcoholic drug addict and he is of no interest to me beyond his music. I care not for the politics of a man whose only relevance is the few songs he committed to recording before blowing his own head to smithereens with a shotgun.
MLK didn't like capitalism, but he wasn't committed to its destruction. He said:
"Capitalism forgets that life is social. And the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism, but in a higher synthesis."
Invoking Hegel and arguing for a synthesis of capitalism and communism can get you to many places. It can get you to state capitalism (Hitler/Mussolini/post-Deng-reforms modern China), or it can get you to the Nordic Model. The interesting thing about socialism is that you can have quite a lot of it and still do well if and ONLY IF you have sufficient ethnic unity trust in your country. That requirement gels with MLK's better known statements on wishing for racial harmony.
If you snap your wizard fingers and make MLK quotes your primary source for deciding policy, you piss off a lot of rich people, you probably piss off a considerable chunk of the middle class, and you have a lot of layabouts leeching off everyone else, buuuut... I don't think anyone starves. ...But I don't think there's any way to get black americans and whites to a level of trust where this is sustainable.
I prefer Malcolm X to MLK, because Malcolm made the intellectual journey and identified the Jew, while MLK was blindly puppeteered by them. Both were shot when they ceased being useful.
Take a few deep breaths, back the fuck up and re-group, Karen. Before he got old and cranky he was a fine stand-up comedian, and he was consistently a free speech advocate/absolutist, so I am not willing to hate him for his descent into cynicism or for his politics, which were typically progressive and unsurprising.
I repeat, he was a comedian. A funny man. A clown. You only care about his personal politics because he had the room to inflict them upon a large audience. Like anyone else, you're free to rag on him and not listen to his later raving bullshit, but before you subjected us to this hissy-fit, you might have considered the man's history, his body of work, and his cultural context--that's what you do with artists.
And you have no room to call anyone "smug" after belching out this bit of knee-jerk nonsense.
I'm not so sure. He called political correctness 'fascism pretending to be manners', and in the later years of his life he made repeated complaints about how he didn't do college audiences anymore because they couldn't handle anything edgy.
He said 'nigger' on stage, he attacked feminism, decried 'pussification', told his audience that people who tried to control their language were in fact trying to control the way they think.
I think Carlin was a centrist with a contrarian streak that motivated him to always attack the popular thing. If he didn't grow old and die, I think he'd have found himself on the same political and intellectual journey many of us have made over the last decade.
This is accurate. OP went off half-cocked.
I don't know everything about him but I do know that he called out feminists for pushing into the corporate world and imitating men, because didn't think putting on a suit and sitting in an office was the highest calling in life.
I'm aware of his 'lame white motherfuckers' statement, but I'm also aware of him saying this:
"There is absolutely nothing wrong with the word "Nigger" in and of itself. It's the racist asshole who's using it that you ought to be concerned about. We don't mind when Richard Pryer or Eddie Murphy say it. Why? Because we know they're not racist - They're Niggers!"
Make that same joke today and your show and your deals are cancelled.
I'm not sure what either of those people have to do with Carlin.
Cobain was an alcoholic drug addict and he is of no interest to me beyond his music. I care not for the politics of a man whose only relevance is the few songs he committed to recording before blowing his own head to smithereens with a shotgun.
MLK didn't like capitalism, but he wasn't committed to its destruction. He said:
"Capitalism forgets that life is social. And the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism, but in a higher synthesis."
Invoking Hegel and arguing for a synthesis of capitalism and communism can get you to many places. It can get you to state capitalism (Hitler/Mussolini/post-Deng-reforms modern China), or it can get you to the Nordic Model. The interesting thing about socialism is that you can have quite a lot of it and still do well if and ONLY IF you have sufficient ethnic unity trust in your country. That requirement gels with MLK's better known statements on wishing for racial harmony.
If you snap your wizard fingers and make MLK quotes your primary source for deciding policy, you piss off a lot of rich people, you probably piss off a considerable chunk of the middle class, and you have a lot of layabouts leeching off everyone else, buuuut... I don't think anyone starves. ...But I don't think there's any way to get black americans and whites to a level of trust where this is sustainable.
I prefer Malcolm X to MLK, because Malcolm made the intellectual journey and identified the Jew, while MLK was blindly puppeteered by them. Both were shot when they ceased being useful.
Take a few deep breaths, back the fuck up and re-group, Karen. Before he got old and cranky he was a fine stand-up comedian, and he was consistently a free speech advocate/absolutist, so I am not willing to hate him for his descent into cynicism or for his politics, which were typically progressive and unsurprising.
I repeat, he was a comedian. A funny man. A clown. You only care about his personal politics because he had the room to inflict them upon a large audience. Like anyone else, you're free to rag on him and not listen to his later raving bullshit, but before you subjected us to this hissy-fit, you might have considered the man's history, his body of work, and his cultural context--that's what you do with artists.
And you have no room to call anyone "smug" after belching out this bit of knee-jerk nonsense.
lol imagine having any serious opinions about Kurt Cobain in current year.