The other day I was out on my roof looking through the skylight at my girlfriend below. I motioned for her to come up and join me, but the glass prevented her from joining me above the ceiling...
Dear Readers,
It has been a privilege to write many of your Sandboxes this year. I have greatly enjoyed the opportunity to debase popular culture, defecate on the steps of society and stain your social norms. That being said, at times I wish the Duke community was less-how do I say this without tangling anyone's unmentionables? I wish they were less guilty of, let's call it, reverse liberalism.
Yes, the problem with this campus is reverse liberalism-a kind of self-righteousness that causes people to take up arms at the slightest smell of political incorrectness. It's kind of like reverse racism because you're contradicting what you stand for by doing what you've mistaken as right. Because your entire mentality about life is inherently flawed. Your eyes are so blinded by justice-for-all that you cannot see the satire staring you in the face.
Making fun of something or some ideology or even prejudice takes away from its power. The more you joke about something, the more it takes the form of a joke, shedding its facade of bigotry and leaving only humor where once there was hate.
I have a dream that one day a person can make any joke he or she wants because they do not have to be worried that, lurking in the shadows of free speech, is an overzealous liberal screaming, "You can't say that!"
Put down your pitchforks, people. Find me, shove a potato in my mouth and tell me, "No Jobs for the Irish! Go back to your green island. Your gene pool should have died during the famine." Even though I'm Irish, I'll LMFAO because what you have said about me is so ridiculous that it's irrelevant, making it funny.
When I can tell a woman to go make me a sandwich, and she can laugh about it, we will have turned a corner on sexism. At last, the concept of men forcing women to cook for them will be so outrageous it's funny. The same goes for homosexuality, race, religion.
The time for change is now (Yes, we can!). Instead of battling politically incorrect jokes, start making more of them, and start laughing at them. Not because it's funny, but because when everyone can laugh at these jokes, no matter their race, gender or creed, we will truly have erased social barriers.
For when the notion of racist, misogynistic and religious hatred becomes humorous, it shall cease to exist, holding only enough weight to be the subject of a simple joke.
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