Comedy icon Rowan Atkinson, who will forever be immortalized as Mr. Bean, attacked political correctness and its stranglehold on comedy.
that comedy should not be drained of its potential to offend, arguing that offense is sometimes its primary job.
“Every joke has a victim, whether fictional or non-fictional or notional, ideological or human and, therefore, there’s always someone suffering if there’s a joke,” he said. “I suppose you have to accept that’s the way it is.” “The problem we have online is that an algorithm decides what we want to see, which ends up creating a simplistic, binary view of society,” Atkinson told the U.K. Radio Times. “It becomes a case of either you’re with us or against us. And if you’re against us, you deserve to be ‘canceled.’”
“It’s important that we’re exposed to a wide spectrum of opinion, but what we have now is the digital equivalent of the medieval mob roaming the streets looking for someone to burn,” Atkinson added. “So it is scary for anyone who’s a victim of that mob and it fills me with fear about the future.”
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