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.
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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.
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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.
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Herreken — 11 years ago(June 14, 2014 07:22 PM)
There is another black guy in the movie who does the funny sounds. He's Michael Winslow from Police Academy. He is not portrayed negatively.
The pick scene wouldn't have been as funny without the black guy saying that line. What makes the use of the pick "clever" but the actual line racist? Would it have been racist if one of the other guys holding the combs said the line and they happened to be white?
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Strangerhand — 12 years ago(May 24, 2013 05:53 PM)
You are right! I know how you feel, I really do!
When I was watching the movie, I was just happily laughing along, and then THAT happened! Can you believe it!? When that happened, I couldn't laugh anymore and then stopped laughing as seeing and hearing that made me cry snif snif.
And then I just cried and cried and boo-hooed for the rest of the movie, BOO-HOO-HOO-HOOOOO!
And then some horrible heartless racist who was sitting a few rows in front of me, who was laughing, also stopped and was very angry, looking at me shouting "What a beepin' baby! Shut the beep up, bitch!" (He was a black man, but that wasn't going to make me think, because thinking is evil and what racists do.) But that hurt my feelings and then I cried even more and loudly!
And then everyone in the theatre started getting mad at me, but they were just a bunch of racists meanies so they deserved to have the movie ruined for them anyway! One of them got up and stomped out of the auditorium and then came back with the manager, who then told me to leave the theatre! God, so unfair, so evil! So I told him that he was in big trouble for showing racism in his racist theatre, but then two big security men grabbed and then bullied me out! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!? Everyone cheered that I was being made to leave, bunch of horrible, terrible racists!
I'm still crying even now ever since I saw that and have never been able to stop since 1987! It was so awful, SO AWFUL! BOO-HOO-HOO-HOO-HOOOOOOO!
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