Jerry Seinfeld has never been very controversial, but now he’s said something that has some people outraged. Seinfeld says he doesn’t perform at colleges anymore because of the level of political correctness.



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In the interview with ESPN’s Colin Cowherd, Seinfeld was promoting his sixth season Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee when Cowherd mentioned that Chris Rock and other comedians have said that stand-up on college campuses is challenging because of the PC culture. Seinfeld definitely agreed.

“Let me give you an example,” Seinfeld says. “My wife says to [my 14-year-old daughter], ‘Well, you know, in the next couple of years, I think you’re going to want to be hanging around the city more on the weekends, so you can see boys.’

And you know what my daughter says? She says ‘that’s sexist.’

“They just want to use these words,” Seinfeld continued. “‘That’s racist. That’s sexist. That’s prejudice.’ They don’t know what the [bleep] they’re talking about.”

And that’s it in a nutshell — much of the PC generation of liberals and social justice warriors throw around those words. They manage to twist just about anything into being prejudice or offensive. It’s no surprise that comedians are hesitant to perform at college campuses, who would want to deal with that? Not Seinfeld.

Check out the audio from the Seinfeld interview below.