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PC Alert: "Blazing Saddles" (1 Viewer)

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Remember Mel Brooks, the satirist of genre movies (e.g. High Anxiety, Young Frankenstein)? Well, a teacher played Brooks' 30-year-old satire of westerns, Blazing Saddles, to a high school class of seniors. Now the teacher is in big trouble because the movie used, in context, the word "niggger". (gasp! shudder! horrors!) Eighteen year olds are supposed to be given a PC-filtered view of the arts! On TV, they interviewed a complaining parent, who suggested the whole school be given classes in "diversity" (which she, like most "diversity" fascists mispronounced th word as "DIE-versity"). What such DIE-versity meddlers REALLY want is the opposite of DIE-versity - PC filtration. (FILE-tration?) :lol:
 
I'm getting a little sick of the this PC crap myself. Hey you stupid parent, you should trust your kid not to get anything out of that word. I mean, you did raise your child to be tolerant and diverse.
 
Sir_Alec said:
I'm getting a little sick of the this PC crap myself. Hey you stupid parent, you should trust your kid not to get anything out of that word. I mean, you did raise your child to be tolerant and diverse.
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The point is that PC-prohibited words can clobber a whole movie. Here's the movie synopsis, from a movie site:

"A town full of people named Johnson stands in the way of the railroad, and a somewhat unscrupulous politician wants to buy the land that the railroad is to be built on. So he tries to make the townspeople want to leave by sending gangs through the town. When this plan fails, he sends the first Black sheriff in the West to them, thinking it will make them leave. But the sheriff, a reformed alcholic outlaw, and the entire town decide to stand against the politician's forces."

See the bigger picture? Probably not if you too have DIE-versity word prohibition (ironic, no? ;) ) as Rule #1 in educational settings.
 
alphamale said:
The point is that PC-prohibited words can clobber a whole movie. Here's the movie synopsis, from a movie site:

"A town full of people named Johnson stands in the way of the railroad, and a somewhat unscrupulous politician wants to buy the land that the railroad is to be built on. So he tries to make the townspeople want to leave by sending gangs through the town. When this plan fails, he sends the first Black sheriff in the West to them, thinking it will make them leave. But the sheriff, a reformed alcholic outlaw, and the entire town decide to stand against the politician's forces."

See the bigger picture? Probably not if you too have DIE-versity word prohibition (ironic, no? ;) ) as Rule #1 in educational settings.
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Trust me Blazing Saddles is one of my favorites. It seems like all of these PC people take everything so seriously. I just wanna slap em in the face and say, "SHUT THE F*** UP!"
 
I came in this thread with only one question...



Where all the white women at?
 
shuamort said:
Where all the white women at?
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LOL

If I remember, it was the black guy mostly, and the assistant bad-guy(name?)
"Everybody stay where you are, or the niggher gets it"
"He's just crazy enough to do it"

Screw all that PC nonsense, limiting speech is limiting thought. Never. Ever.
 
What About The WHITE GUYS......terrible portrayal of inbred white trash in that movie....disgusting.


"Mongo Like Candy"

And the animal rights aspect.....damn. He freakin Punched a horse in the face....knocked it clean out.....I'm Calling PETA.
 
Its twue, its twue!!
 
Hedley Lamarr: Meeting adjourned. Oh, I am sorry sir I didn't mean to overstep my bounds, you say that.
Governor William J. Le Petomane: What?
Hedley Lamarr: Meeting is adjourned.
Governor William J. Le Petomane: It is?
Hedley Lamarr: No, you say that governor.
Governor William J. Le Petomane: What?
Hedley Lamarr: Meeting is adjourned.
Governor William J. Le Petomane: It is?
Hedley Lamarr: Here sir, play with this.
[Hands the governor a rubber ball and paddle set]

Classic stuff... my favourite film of all time.
 
Thanks alot! Now I have a sudden craving to eat beans around a campfire. Which could be dangerous?
 
One of my all-time favorites - liked it so much that my kids gave me the DVD.

If you think its hilarious now, you should have seen it first time around in the theaters! Mel Brooks was really pushing the PC enevlope in 1974, especially in my native deep south!

the assistant bad-guy(name?) Gene Wilder played The Waco Kid. (Though he was really the assistant 'good guy')

Former Detroit Lion linebacker Alex Karras played Mongo.
 
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