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Dissecting the Casual Racism of “Airplane!”
https://medium.com ^ | Jul 10, 2020 · | Nathanael Molnár

Posted on 06/30/2021 11:45:17 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

They take the statues...
Now, they want to take your films.
GFY, Nate!


61 posted on 06/30/2021 12:10:09 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (LIVE FREE OR DIE)
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To: Dubh_Ghlase

A favorite.


62 posted on 06/30/2021 12:10:36 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (LIVE FREE OR DIE)
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To: Red Badger

The death of comedy? Why not liberals, you’re destroying everything else?


63 posted on 06/30/2021 12:10:39 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: OttawaFreeper

The author has a perpetually worried look that somebody wok-er than he is going to call him out on something he said or wrote.


64 posted on 06/30/2021 12:11:14 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Red Badger

Not a single example of a racist joke. The jive bit was as much making fun of white people for being clueless as it lampooned jive.

One of the pilots was played by Kareem. There were no jokes about his blackness...only that he was really a basketball player, not a pilot. He got sick from the fish just like everyone else.

These SJWs like to throw allegations based on their feelings, with no proof whatsoever.


65 posted on 06/30/2021 12:12:29 PM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: dfwgator

Jim Carrey is an A-hole, always has been.


66 posted on 06/30/2021 12:14:09 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: EEGator

Chump don’ want no help, chump don’t get da help!


67 posted on 06/30/2021 12:14:17 PM PDT by ThreeYearLurker
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To: Red Badger

First they came for Barbara Billingsley.


68 posted on 06/30/2021 12:14:31 PM PDT by Neanderthal (The Devil walks with Democrats)
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To: Red Badger

The dummy can’t see that the hapless whites are the butt of the joke in the jive scenes.


69 posted on 06/30/2021 12:15:04 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: Red Badger

Watched over a dozen you tube segment of people watching Airplane for the first time, over half of them of color. They were howling during the whole thing especially when Barbara Billingly talked jive to the black guys.


70 posted on 06/30/2021 12:15:20 PM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: Red Badger

Further proof (as if needed) that these folks are clearly not gifted in the brain’s “department of intellect”. Keep this person away from tools more complex than a screwdriver and hope to high heaven that they never come close to something that actually requires a human level intelligence.


71 posted on 06/30/2021 12:15:57 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: billyboy15

Dave Chappell does a really funny bit about the Alphabet People. You know the Ls, the B’s, the G’s, the Q’s, etc.
It is really funny.
However, Dave can get away with it because he is BLACK


72 posted on 06/30/2021 12:16:18 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Red Badger
This homo isn't a liberal, he's a full-blown commie. Commies definitely have no sense of humor - at least intended humor. I will continue to watch Airplane! as intended. As a spoof of the 1970s catastrophe flicks.


73 posted on 06/30/2021 12:18:37 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: Red Badger

I remember Mr’s Cleaver saying “I speak Jive”. Of course, that’s dated. Now she would say “ebonics”. But that’s not as funny. :D


74 posted on 06/30/2021 12:19:40 PM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: Red Badger

Jackass has no idea what he’s talking about.

The joke was that Mrs Cleaver spoke jive.
Nobody was laughing at the poor guy sick from fish.

Does this @$$ muncher know who Mrs Cleaver is?

No, no he does not.


75 posted on 06/30/2021 12:19:44 PM PDT by CaptainPhilFan ( )
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To: NohSpinZone

Golly, LOL!


76 posted on 06/30/2021 12:19:56 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

“When a joke goes after someone’s personal identity — their race, their gender, their sexual orientation, their physical attributes — they themselves become the joke.”

My BIL is from Poland. He’s collected Polish jokes for 40 years. And he LOVES to tell them!

I’m Baptist. I don’t know a ton of Baptist jokes, but I love to tell the ones I know. Some of which are a little painful because, like a lot of stereotypes, there is an element of truth - sometimes a LOT of truth - in the jokes about Baptists.


77 posted on 06/30/2021 12:20:21 PM PDT by Mr Rogers
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To: dfwgator

Another great Keenan character was Frenchie - the Rick James loving, Superfreak dancing, Jheri curl wearing walking stereotype. Very hilarious.

Cheech Marin parodied East LA Hispanic types. Christopher Guest parodies all matter of white people types in his movies. All hilarious because they are based on or are exaggerated versions of the truth.

It would be nice if we could go back to pre-Obozo days when everyone loved The Cosby Show, Michael Jackson, Prince, In Living Color, etc., and we had a sense of humor.


78 posted on 06/30/2021 12:20:25 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: rktman

“Sorry about the ‘up yours, ni**er’”. :D


79 posted on 06/30/2021 12:20:39 PM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Not just the television program of M*A*S*H, but what about the movie. Remember Spearchucker Jones?


80 posted on 06/30/2021 12:20:45 PM PDT by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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