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To: StACase

I'm not a big movie watcher, and I've only seen two of these movies. Aren't they "socially incorrect", not politically? There's not politics, no conservative vs. smelly hippies, in any of the eight I didn't see, is there?

Or does politically incorrect simply mean gross and stupid?


7 posted on 07/15/2006 7:30:55 AM PDT by SuzyQue
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To: SuzyQue
I've seen every one but the Woody Allen. What's that doing in there? Very funny stuff. I would add: Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
41 posted on 07/15/2006 7:54:52 AM PDT by sportutegrl (A person is a person, no matter how small. (Dr. Seuss))
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To: SuzyQue

Most of these movies make fun of certain groups using stereotypes. Blazing Saddles, like Huckleberry Finn, is included because of the N word, but if you watch it, the movie is a positive image of blacks with a negative image of racists and portrays bigoted people becoming somewhat enlightened. Twenty years or so ago when this movie came out, most black people I knew actually loved it and would watch it again and again. Now they have been told to ignore the story and instead focus on the N word.


52 posted on 07/15/2006 8:01:31 AM PDT by sportutegrl (A person is a person, no matter how small. (Dr. Seuss))
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To: SuzyQue
The term "Political Correctness" is in itself, "PC".

It is more accurately defined as "Cultural Marxism".

59 posted on 07/15/2006 8:07:06 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: SuzyQue
Or does politically incorrect simply mean gross and stupid?

It seems to.

Politically incorrect should include a truth that is not popular.

Some of these were funny in a gross out way, some were just gross and boring. None of them were politically incorrect IMHO.

I'm going to have to make my own list.

120 posted on 07/15/2006 9:14:31 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Sign up to donate monthly and you will be automatically entered in our "Win a Bear Hug Contest")
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To: SuzyQue
Yeah, I was hoping for something that actually went beyond the "yuks using gross humor" bit.

Here are a few politically incorrect films that would be on my list:

The Incredibles -- It's probably the most politically incorrect film I've ever seen. The recurring them was, "If everybody's special, it's just another way of saying no one is." It was a scathing indictment of the non-competitive, no-winners, everybody passes attitude of post-modernists.

Dirty Harry -- Although it became a movie series, all the following shows were either apologies for the first one (Magnum Force) or mindless action sequences. The original Dirty Harry was about a cop trying to track down a killer, who was opposed by a liberal mayor and DA that were more interested in accommodating evil than protecting citizens.

The Passion of the Christ -- No explanation needed.

Death Wish -- Death Wish was almost a spin off of Dirty Harry. Government incapable of protecting citizens, so a citizen starts taking out bad guys. The government, of course, becomes more concerned with stopping the guy who's killing the bad guys than protecting citizens.

The movies on the original list are not, for the most part, politically incorrect, any more than Bill Maher's television show was politically incorrect. Maher's show was probably one of the most politically correct shows ever on television, because it put forth the premise that all viewpoints were of equal value. It's part of an attempt to co-opt the term to mean simply something that is gross or offends a few people. The original meaning of politically incorrect was that it was a statement of belief that was suppressed by the powers that be (usually on college campuses) because they objected to the thought process. The statements were seldom obscene or racist. They simply challenged post-modernist thinking.

132 posted on 07/15/2006 9:46:43 AM PDT by Richard Kimball
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