‘Blazing Saddles’ Gets Intro Disclaimer for Racist Context on HBO Max
https://www.thewrap.com/blazing-saddles-gets-intro-disclaimer-for-racist-context-on-hbo-max/
shareBut this movie isn't racist.
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ooh dual warning outrage threads!
now we can be outraged in stereo!
All she really did was warn parents that the film has a repeated usage of a word that most parents don’t want their children saying. Children also might not understand that the film is mocking those who use the word. I don’t have a problem with that. On the other hand she openly praised the film in the disclaimer saying and it should be praised, not only is it really really good it’s also freaking hilarious.
shareThere are words I don't want people saying - sexism racism homophobia transphobia, stereotypical inappropriate.
shareThat’s all the disclaimer did, was give a parental warning about the content. Little kids might not understand that the repeated use of the “N-word” was actually mocking people who use it.
shareWe are trained as a society to automatically freak out when we hear the N word. We can't even type it because we will be charged with RACISM. But I hear it almost every day. Black people say it constantly. But if a white person says it, or even says 'ni', people lose their minds. It's the weirdest brainwashing.
shareAnd the left will make excuse after excuse for their double standard and what's so ironic is their line of thinking is in itself racist, just it's OK to them to be racist one way but not the other. Heck just look at Black Conservatives, they are called every vile, racist name in the book by the left including Uncle Tom and the N-word itself.
shareTrue. I would think Thomas Sowell would be mentioned as one of the great black Americans of the last century and yet he is ignored. Because he is a conservative.
shareLike we didn't get the context -- and who the heroes were -- in 1974 already.
Its like a lecture to a Third Grade class. Or perhaps being lectured to by a third grader.
PS. Nothing about the anti-gay sequence near the end?
Sad.
shareThe whole point of the movie is that racism is stupid. You don't need a disclaimer to tell you that.
shareI actually just heard the disclaimer and she actually didn't really say anything all that infuriating and she actually praised the movie, my only real problem was she felt she had to point out that the movie wasn't condoning racism despite the N-words and I think we are smart enough to figure that out for ourselves.
shareOf course WE are, but are the hypersensitive Wokeists?
No.
What's really funny is white people invented the word nigger, so it's just one more thing they stole.
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