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Originally posted by Sahara
Not necessarily, it would depend on the context.
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I agree.
If you watch
Blazing Saddles on DVD, there is a director's commentary audio track. Mel Brooks talks about the mail that he received from people who were offended by the racial dialogue. It was all from overly sensitive white people. Black people didn't complain because the racists in that movie, who repeatedly used the dreaded "n" word, were portrayed as idiots. Racism, in general, was ridiculed by that movie.
It is all about context.
On a related side not, there was one thing about
Blazing Saddles that was racist. Richard Pryor, who was one of that movies screenwriters, was originally cast as Sheriff Bart. Studio executives replaced him with Cleavon Little because he seemed less black. Little did a great job in that movie, but imagine it with Pryor. We know, from movies that were later made, that Pryor and Gene Wilder had great comedic chemistry. That would have been something.
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