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Julia Louis-Dreyfus pushes back on Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘PC crap’ comments

Asked about her former co-star’s claims that comedy had been ruined by ‘the extreme left and PC crap’, the actor said ‘that’s a red flag’

Louis-Dreyfus spoke to the same journalist 11 days later to clarify her thoughts on the subject, saying: “My feeling about all of it is that political correctness, insofar as it equates to tolerance, is obviously fantastic. However, Louis-Dreyfus defended the idea that it was important to anticipate problematic issues, adding: “Even classically wonderful, indisputably great films from the past are riddled with attitudes that today would not be acceptable. In recent weeks Seinfeld, with whom she performed in the successful sitcom between 1990 and 1998, has offered a number of controversial opinions, including saying he missed “dominant masculinity”.

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