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Originally Posted by Oil Stain
I dunno.
You see some pretty edgy stuff today still. In "Million Ways to Die in the West" they play a shooting game that has the participant shoot at tin facsimiles of black people stealing watermelons from a field.
Tropic Thunder had a major character in blackface.
Gran Torino lets the racist epitaphs fly.
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Yeah I think pretty much every adult cartoon significantly eclipses any sort of racist satire from the past. Some of that may have been viewed as more controversial than today given the state of race relations and what was viewed as "proper" entertainment, but it certainly used much more extremely in things like Family Guy.
In fact, I would argue that if Blazing Saddles was made today it would be much worse as the satire had to be much more subtle in those days to not insult the people who actually carried those views (usually people in powerful positions). It's subtlety in satire that seems to have seen a drop, at least in North American media.