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What, and whom, do you think BS was lampooning? I'd expect a true modern successor to lean pretty far toward the "woke diversity-inclusion drama" side of things

• smsm42 5y ago
  BS is lampooning a lot of things - corrupt politicians, demagogues, racists, ignorance, religious intolerance, Western movie tropes, cinema tropes in general, and by the end it turns into a total glorious mayhem where everybody gets a pie in the face (in both metaphorical and the most literal sense). So you'd be tempted to ask - why would Woke Hollywood or their woke twitter mob watchdogs object to lampooning corrupt politicians or racists? And the answer to that is exactly the reason why woke cancel culture is so awful - because the intent does not matter. If something can be taken as offensive by any construction of the most hostile reading of it - and a hostile reading (watching) of Blazing Saddles surely could find a lot of "problematic" things within it - completely ignoring the intent, the context and concentrating only on the form and the worst possible interpretation of it that could be invented - then it's unacceptable and must be destroyed. That's exactly the crux of the problem and the point of the argument about Blazing Saddles - the problem is that even when you agree on the premises, like racism is bad, corrupt politicians are bad, etc. - if you express it in a manner that may seem to somebody, even in theory, "problematic", you're still the enemy.