In order to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Blazing Saddles, The Guardian trots out an article with a cliche headline about how it couldn't be made today which promptly gets the redditoids seething .

The people that can't go five seconds without bringing up "media literacy". The people in that thread being intentionally obtuse about the point being made.

Where the white men at?

Wish it said "mayo removal" on the can

Its really just another expression of "everything is political". A movie cant be a parody of a film genre, it has to actually be a deeper message about politics and society

But to the point of “everyone is too sensitive to make a comedy that discusses social issues Iike racism.” Uhhhhhh, what the frick are those people talking about? You 100 percent can. If all someone took away from those movies is “racism is funny” then maybe they don't understand why those movies were popular.

>actually Blazing Saddles was a movie that discussed racial issues

It was a comedy... not a woke film about the evils of racism.

>"racism is funny"

It is. When the sheriff runs into a nice-looking old lady who says, "Up yours, BIPOC!," it was funny because it was unexpected.

>"everyone is too sensitive to make a comedy that discusses social issues Iike racism.”

Examples cited?

>I like how machismo is portrayed and rewarded with short-term catharsis and I want to have a threesome with Helena Bonham Carter and Margot Robbie

“Actually they're movies about toxic masculinity”