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There are two black dudes speaking straight Ebonics, and the whitest woman in the world translating for them. Zucker (who is Jewish) would immediately be excommunicated and branded a Hitler for filming this in 2021. One of the funniest scenes in the history of comedy, and the genre is immeasurably diminished by the current inability to film such things. As is the arrival of the sheriff scene from "Blazing Saddles" by Mel Brooks. "Blazing Saddles" is one of the most potent bits of anti-racist satire ever filmed, but there's one problem: the woke mob lacks the sense of humor. So the movie (I kid you not) comes with a "trigger warning" now, specifically for people too dumb to get the meaning of the movie, and what it aims to satirize.

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While there is truth to this, there are a whole bunch of people who would want to make Blazing Saddles not to be Mel Brooks, but to be Andrew Dice Clay. Anyone who insists too loudly that 'they can't make Blazing Saddles' is probably looking to have the surface level of those jokes, without noticing the real target of 'em.

I mean, we had Borat. Like hell you can't have Blazing Saddles, etc. The reason a 'woke mob' kicks up a fuss is because we're mainstreaming 'Blazing Saddles' but NOT as a joke. And that changes things quite a lot.

Doesn't stop with Borat. Have you ever heard of 'Boondocks'? Check out the animated series of that.

> Anyone who insists too loudly that 'they can't make Blazing Saddles' is probably looking to have the surface level of those jokes, without noticing the real target of 'em.

And that assumption is the problem.

'You do not want censorship? That means you are a racist'.

Try to film a "Borat" style comedy that goes over the leftist tropes, rather than right-wing/rust belt ones, and you will quickly discover that there exist certain types of comedy that aren't conducive to one's success in Hollywood, even if the result is funny AF to everyone but Twitter intelligentsia.

"A Mighty Wind". Follow-up to 'This Is Spinal Tap', but instead of heavy metal it's lefty folk singers.

You're offended that a satire is called out via text before a movie starts, in order to let more people in on the joke?

No, I'm not offended by that. I'm just disappointed that we kowtow to moralist busybodies with the IQ of a house plant, and the sense of humor of a door knob, and this is somehow deemed not just socially acceptable, but "virtuous". It's a rather obvious, and a rather pointless death spiral, with increasingly stringent, humorless, and insane purity tests for all involved. Were it up to me, we'd be mercilessly laughing at such people.

Honestly, I kind of am. I find it ridiculous that people can't tell that something like Airplane! and Blazing Saddles are satires. Needing that much hand holding explains a lot about people today. It's also like how Netflix now has warnings that a show/movie may have smoking in it. Come on, be an adult and learn how to deal with things that make you a bit uncomfortable, that's called life.

Wouldn't it just be easier to ignore those warnings? Are you similarly affected by the PG/PG-13/R ratings on tv shows and movies?

I'm not trying to attack you, but there is a major /r/selfawarewolves in the mindset where people get offended by what other people are offended by. We could all do a bit better about just ignoring things that aren't relevant to us.

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