In anticipation of a quick fade into thoroughly lonely obscurity, the San Diego State University student who lectured Jerry Seinfeld on comedy earlier this month wants America to know that that he is enjoying his fleeting brush with notoriety.
The politically-correct student, Anthony Berteaux, shot into Internet infamy recently when he upbraided Seinfeld in a 1,170-word open letter published by The Huffington Post.
“I’m kind of loving it,” Berteaux told The San Diego Union-Tribune this week, concerning the national fury directed against him.
“On Twitter, people have been calling me ‘Sensitive,’ ‘Little Nancy,’ ‘Liberal Boy,’ ‘Just another PC Police person,'” he told the paper. “That’s not really who I am. If you look at the articles I’ve written for the (SDSU student newspaper) Daily Aztec, I’m the first one to call out activists who scream racism when it actually didn’t happen or didn’t apply.” (RELATED: Queer People of Color Call For San Diego State To Dump Aztec Team Name Immediately)
Berteaux’s HuffPo letter instructed Seinfeld that “comedy in our progressive society today can no longer afford to be crass, or provocative for the sake of being offensive.” He championed political correctness because college students are now ultra-sensitive, which is their “job as learners.”
Comics should seek to emulate comedian Amy Schumer’s sketch about high school- and college-aged males raping women left and right, Berteaux pontificated.
Berteaux was responding to the legendary comedian’s statement to an ESPN reporter that he’s troubled by how insufferably PC college campuses have become. “They just want to use these words: ‘That’s racist;’ ‘That’s sexist;’ ‘That’s prejudice,'” Seinfeld explained. “They don’t know what the hell they’re talking about.” (RELATED: The Left’s Outrage At Jerry Seinfeld Proves His Point)
The San Diego State student has been actively defending himself on his Twitter feed. In response to a question asking him how he feels about all the media attention, he responded: “Like Ann Coulter, but cooler,” notes the Union-Tribune.
He also tweeted that he was buying a “Subway Footlong to celebrate” the world-historical humiliation which comedian Bill Maher foisted on him during Maher’s HBO show.
Berteaux is residing in Washington, D.C. this summer. He is an intern with The Israel Project, a pro-Israel 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
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