Yes, you could make “Blazing Saddles” today

Please read Roy Edroso’s roundup on how America’s Sorest Losers are handling the winds of change.

One of the funnier bits is the cop sob story “America, We Are Leaving” that wingnuts are passing around in which Captain Yates from the mean streets of Tulsa, OK has had enough, dammit, and is throwing his badge on the ground. And it’s not just the protestors he’s mad about; “Kids used to be taught respect and now it’s cool to be disrespectful,” laments Yates; “…Parents used to get mad at their kids for getting arrested and now they get mad at us.” And the language they use on TV these days! As for George Floyd, Yates says:

Doctors kill 250,000 people a year. They call them “medical mistakes” because society understands that they do a very difficult job under high stress and they must make the best possible decision in the moment.

So can’t you spot the cops a certain number of murdered suspects? It’s only fair! Yates says he’s been in 27 years, so his pension must be pretty fat. Vaya con Dios!

But let’s get to the really important news: One of HBO’s 5 trillion channels has stopped showing “Gone with the Wind,” and to conservatives–who seem to misapprehend the message of it–think movies like “Blazing Saddles” are next on the “chopping block.“

Here are the movies think are going to get cancelled by tofu enthusiasts:

• Tropic Thunder: Aside from the “full retard” line, which is bad and should go, there’s absolutely no reason why this movie should go, unless–as with “Blazing Saddles”–you completely misunderstand Downey’s character intent, which was to mock white actors who would have the hubris to play a black actor in this day and age.
• Unplanned: It’s a “pro-life” drama, but people have the right to make anti-choice trash, so I’m sure movie of this genre aren’t going anywhere.
• 16 Candles: The ridiculously ugly stereotypes about the Asian exchange student would HAVE to go, as would some of the creepy misogyny, but there would definitely be ways to make 16 Candles today that would, frankly, greatly improve the movie.
• Dirty Harry: I don’t think the genre of white men who take the law into their own hands is ever going to go away, nor do I think it should. I think the success of the “John Wick” franchise, not to mention the billion superhero movies that are released every year is ample proof of this. I do think that there were be fewer movies about vigilante cops, which is probably good!
• Animal House: I’ve never seen this movie. It sounds super boring. It should be banned for that reason alone.