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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
kind of like blazing saddles.
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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
No, Blazing Saddles was pretty clear, you were laughing at the racists, most of those TV shows were more a case of, we are going to pretend we're laughing at racism in order to make racist jokes.
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Yeah, Blazing Saddles mocks racists. But in order to mock the racists it depicts racism, which people have become so sensitive to that it's taboo to even show it being mocked.
Same with All in the Family. Probably the most stridently progressive TV show ever made. But in order to challenge the bigotry of Archie Bunker, they had to show him being bigoted. Taboo. So it's never shown anymore, and I don't think Netflix has picked it up.