Racism in Spaceballs
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club-shred — 13 years ago(March 04, 2013 10:47 AM)
Y'all want to know what actual "racism in Spaceballs" would be? If Dark Helmet would have said to the "black" Spaceballs, "you guys aren't doing a good job because you're black." THAT'S racism.
This was just a play on a stereotype. But douchebags like the OP call it "RACISM" so it has teeth but guess what they say it sooo facking much that it's gotten to the point where nobody gives a flying rat's ass.
"Loser! Idiot! Wimp! Degnerate! SSSSSSSSSLUT!!!!" -
cold_sky — 13 years ago(March 23, 2013 11:33 PM)
It's a good thing you haven't seen Blazing Saddles. You'd blow every breaker in your box.
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arbitrarydissent — 12 years ago(May 07, 2013 08:16 AM)
"it was immediate ruined"
The op is punking you. Imagine taking seriously the jokes from TBONTB; "Are they Jews or are they rabbits?" "Without Jews, fags and gypsies, there would be no theater." The list goes on and on as posted here in quotes from Blazing Saddles.
This post was not hastily written as there are no typos, with one single betraying error in the inability to grasp the difference between an adjective and an adverb, something we native English speakers do naturally. Do you see Khabib responding at all? No. He just tried to spark the fire and ran.
The ability to laugh at ourselves and our stereotypes is an exclusive(ly?) American trait. Point is, here in cyberspace, become cyber-wise. Otherwise you may end up sending money to Nigeria, getting mad at your neighbor or arguing with idiots.
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oldpantsnewjersey — 12 years ago(May 19, 2013 12:16 AM)
Well, "dessert" was a typo. Does that change your theory?
For the record, I don't think OP was trolling. It was unquestionably a joke based on racial stereotypes. He's not preaching that it's going to destroy our society, just the humor in the film for a brief moment.
There's nothing wrong with deconstructing why we do or don't think something is funny, people. Don't be scared. -
Khabibul35-1 — 12 years ago(November 06, 2013 12:33 AM)
Well, I definitely wasn't trolling as the poster below pointed out. To be honest with you I didn't find much of the movie funny (nor did I Princess Bride). Mostly because playing on tropes isn't really all that clever or interesting to me - it's really obvious slapstick like humor, which isn't for me. Still, I was a bit surprised that that particular line made it into the movie. There are tropes, there's racial humor and then there's racism. The afro-pick was racial humor and even clever, but the line that came after it was racist in my opinion because it goes beyond just playing with race but into an area where a person of an ethnic group is played up as having poor grammar and being less educated. Making it even more sad, is that it's pretty much the only time you even see a black person in the movie. It's just in poor taste, and frankly, I still think it's racist.
