Posted on 05/11/2014 4:46:18 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Dave Chapelle made some pretty funny stuff on TV even less than 10 years ago, but realize that there is a double standard in this country.
Buying a new widescreen this weekend (old tube tv set died a few days ago & wife unit DEMANDED a new set...I had no choice...honest).
Blazing Saddles will be the first movie I pop in the player...in Blue Ray, if possible.
Classic movie.
What in the wide wide world of sports is a goin’ on here?!?!
And mexican banditos.
They likely wouldn’t let him make The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, History of the World Part I, Spaceballs, or Robin Hood Men In Tights.
In the final analysis, political correctness is like any other form of fanaticism, precisely because it has an absence of humor. Or really, an inability to laugh.
During the HUAC investigations, one method the investigators used to determine if someone was a fanatical communist was simply to tell a joke. The fanatic would just stare at them, and if pressed, either say that the joke was not funny, or force laughter.
The reason is that the fanatic, of whatever stripe, has a very brittle, closed idea about what the world is. For most people, laughter is an effective defense mechanism against the irrational, but the fanatic just regards it as irrelevant. It cannot fit their mental pattern, so it is just disregarded.
In the early 1970’s an American comedian was permitted to visit closed China shortly after its cultural revolution, to give a stand up comedy routine before some of its elite. But they insisted that all his jokes had to be approved ahead of time.
He decided the most innocuous joke he had was about a cow, so he told it to the political officer in charge of approval. The officer just sat there, stone faced, until the joke was over, then roundly criticized it, for *its* criticism of “one of the people’s cows, that dedicates its life, its milk, and eventually its meat to the cause of the peoples’ revolution!”
Thinking quickly, the comedian then told a bad political joke he had heard about president Nixon. The political officer approved it, after forcing himself to laugh for the better part of a minute, while the comedian sat uncomfortably.
So his entire comedy routine in China was political criticism of American leaders, and he described the wooden and forced laughter of the audiences to be creepy.
This is what life is like under a fanatical regime. So when you consider political correctness, remember that its real purpose has nothing to do with offending others, but that such people *want* a rigidly conforming society that is forced to follow their rules.
I finally figured out where that line came from.......It was based on "Superman" from The Godfather Part II, in the scene where Michael finds out Fredo betrayed him.
"Qualifications?"
"Rape ... murder ... arson ... rape."
"You said rape twice."
"I like rape."
Like this ?
“Y’know, Nietzsche says, ‘Out of chaos comes order.’”
“Oh, blow it out out your a—, Howard.”
The original, not the lame remake.
“Even some of those pre-1990 movies have been edited to reflect the more current PC culture. “
They remade Red Dawn and threw in every race they could, instead of having a bunch of white rural kids in it. It was a terrible remake.
This thread is authentic FR gibberish....
But we don’t want the Irish.....
Yet liberals have always complained about those bad old days when...horror of horrors...there were movie censors and certain things could not be shown on screen. Now they're imposing their own censorship, and feel righteous and justified doing it.
Not totally true. They have in fact been working very hard to find gainful employment for one of their own!
Too bad he's a third string football player.
The agitators of the 1968 revolution were killjoys. They castrated cartoons and turned Tom & Jerry into cooperative buddies, Yogi's "gang" into ecogoodies, and other boring pablum.
The same vanguard leftists who decried male chauvinist pigs defended Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, and Bill Clinton.
They turned "rock and roll" into fern bar music in the 1970s.
Hamburgers have been turned into "heart attacks on a plate".
Comic books champion gay heroes at every turn (some editors in chief have even been publicly gay activists).
In the 1970s, "punk rock" (the original incarnation, which celebrated low culture of rock and roll, comix, b-movies, trashy paperbacks, etc.) pushed back against the condescending self-rightousness of politically correct hippies. Then it got co-opted by the Marxist left and politicized into what it originally rose up against.
In the 1980s I saw this crud gaining ground (living in Boston at the time) and by the Clinton 90s everyone was tripping over their tongue trying to use the "new" terms for "mailman" etc.
Then the public pushed back and by the Bush 21st century it had largely become a ridiculed thing of the past. But with the Obama-Clintonista crowd back in power, it's been pushed to the forefront once again.
Forget about Disney ever re-issuing Song of the South...
>> Yea, it would be 2 hours on non-stop hammering of white males.
Kind of what Tarantino's Django movie was.
The klan hood scene was even an attempt at trying to play up "Blazing Saddles" type humor.
There exists a new un-elected “Un-American Activities Committee” among the Left who are purging dissenters from the corporate world. Read my tagline...
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