What about a movie like Blazing Saddles, where Mel Brooks used racial slurs to poke fun at the very people who made them? He got away with it because that movie took EVERYONE to the cleaners, without prejudice. I doubt that it could be made today.
Gary
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But Twain was pre-civil war, historial documents. Disney, not so much, commercial pap. (opinion).
Birth of a Nation?
Hmmm.
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Lou Judson
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> On Oct 14, 2020, at 10:13 PM, Corey Bailey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Disney won't release "Song Of The South" because of racial content.
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> ~CB
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> On 10/14/2020 5:19 PM, Lou Judson wrote:
>> Reminds me of the attempts to censor Mark Twain’s novels. “The
>> N-word”was a psrt of the culture… Historically corect or censored to honor changing times?
>> Conundrum.
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