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The right-wing misreading of ‘Blazing Saddles’ is so telling

posted 9 months ago by TheArgentinian (7062)
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"Gene Wilder as Bart’s fast-drawing friend Jim, is even more explicit. “You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers,” Jim reassures Bart after he’s endured racist insults from a nice White grandma. “These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.”

You’re really not supposed to outright say that rural White MAGA voters — the “people of the land” — are deplorable racist dunderheads. You’re supposed to be respectful. But Blazing Saddles,” 50 years ago, said that treating racists with respect is BS — even if those racists look like your grandma, even if those racists live in small towns and hang out in diners.

If a movie like Brooks’ masterpiece were made today, the left would love it. It’s the right who would recognize, slowly and dimly, that they were being insulted, and howl in rage. The best way to honor “Blazing Saddles” is to offend some racists."

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/07/opinions/blazing-saddles-50th-anniversary-politics-berlatsky/index.html

[–] mechajutaro (2788) 9 months ago

"If a movie like Brooks’ masterpiece were made today, the left would love it. It’s the right who would recognize, slowly and dimly, that they were being insulted, and howl in rage"

Fairly certain The Woke Left would find something "Problematic" in Saddles, while The Alt Right would find some scene or line to be "Blue Pill". Our societal capacity to get jokes is comparable to the presence of clothes on Sydney Sweeney... All but non-existent. The former is an immense tragedy, the latter manna from Heaven

[–] KingBob (2110) 3 months ago

The left would hate this movie if it came out today because the left wants us to believe that racial relations have not gotten any better since the Civil War, despite that being an outright lie.

[–] strntz (12225) 3 months ago

LOL, you can't be serious. It's the left that finds almost every movie "problematic" in their more enlightened view or things. In fact, it's the right that complains about the trigger warnings that now accompany Mel Brooks movies.

Trying to claim the left is showing tolerance here is absolutely hysterical. You guys can't even listen to a 1940s Christmas classic without emptying your colons.