SELIGMAN: You shouldn’t use this word.
It’s not what you call “politically correct”…
’Negro’
…
JOE: Well, excuse me, but
in my circles,
it’s always been a mark of
honor to call a spade “a spade”.
Each time a word becomes prohibited,
you remove a stone’s
from the democratic foundation. Society demonstrates its impotence
in the face of a concrete problem, by
removing words through the language.
SELIGMAN: I think society would claim that the political correctness is
a very precise expression
of democratic concern for minorities.
JOE:
And I say that society is so cowardly
as the people in it, who are, in my opinion,
too stupid for democracy.
SELIGMAN: I understand your point, but I totally disagree.
I have no doubt in
the human qualities.
JOE: The human qualities can
be expressed in one word: hypocrisy.
We elevate those who say “right”,
but mean “wrong”,
and mock those who say “wrong”,
but mean “right”.
Lars von Trier, Nymphomaniac vol. II (2013), con Charlotte Gainsbourg e Stellan Skarsgård
