The last time I saw "Breakfast at Tiffany's," I did cringe at the scenes with Mickey Rooney's icky stereotypical portrayal of a Japanese man, but certainly don't suggest destroying copies of the film like the leftist censors usually suggest. (This just in: eBay not permitting sales of Dr. Seuss books. I'm not kidding).
We purchased a DVD of "Blazing Saddles," because we figured the time would come when the tolerant left would manage to get it pulled from the airwaves.
Hard to believe Blazing Saddles has managed to survive this long.
Maybe because it was so inclusive and embraced diversity. SOme example are listed below.
Love of the Chinese. "Dock that Chink a days pay for napping on the job"
Love for the Irish. “But we don’t want the Irish!†Ah Praire shit!
Appreciation of the Alphabet people dancing ability. "Stop dancing around like a bunch of Kansas City faggotts.
Affection for the Jews. “We’ll kill the first born male child in every householdâ€!
Calling the Native Americans “little red devilsâ€
Love of African Americans. By using the “n-word†17 times in its 93-minute run !
Helping the elderly. “Have you ever seen such cruelty?â€
From a “woke†point of view, the “n-word†is hardly the film’s only problem. Its “racist language and attitudes†extend to Mexicans, Chinese, Native Americans, Germans, Arabs, Jews, and the Irish. Brooks’s cameo appearance in full Indian dress while speaking Yiddish suggests “cultural appropriation†of a magnitude that would get him expelled from Yale on any given Halloween. The governor’s lascivious relationship with his sexpot secretary lightheartedly approaches what some joyless, sex-starved diversity bureaucrat would condemn as sexual harassment. The film seeks further taboo levity in drug abuse, capital punishment, physical and mental disabilities, cruelty to animals, and farting. Its climactic battle between the townspeople and outlaws spills into a modern studio rehearsal of stereotyped gay dancers practicing a routine called the French Mistake, an old slang term for when a heterosexual man “accidentally†wanders into same-sex relations.