If you haven't been following the uproar over comments made by A&E's Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson to an interviewer from GQ Magazine, I've found an article which summarizes what happened, what he said, who has weighed in on the issues raised, etc. See this Washington Post blog for the lowdown.
I only learned one new thing from the blog post: Phil was a college starting quarterback and teammate of Terry Bradshaw at Louisiana Tech. That must be why several of Phil's comments sound like they were written by Dan Jenkins for characters in his Semi-Tough: A Novel.
Robertson has a right to his opinions. A&E has a right to decide those opinions are toxic and not permitted on their platform. This highlights a problem with so-called reality shows, many real people don't hold politically correct opinions.
Self-censorship - understanding which opinions can be safely shared and which must remain private - requires considerable self-awareness as well as awareness of what is (or is not) PC. Finally, it requires one to prioritize appearing PC over telling the truth as one understands it.
As a conservative professor at a liberal university, I got lots of practice at self-censorship.
