{"id":47069,"date":"2020-08-14T23:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ridiculous-trigger-warning-for-blazing-saddles-shows-how-far-culture-has-gone-off-rails\/"},"modified":"2020-08-14T23:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T20:06:00","slug":"ridiculous-trigger-warning-for-blazing-saddles-shows-how-far-culture-has-gone-off-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ridiculous-trigger-warning-for-blazing-saddles-shows-how-far-culture-has-gone-off-rails\/","title":{"rendered":"#Ridiculous trigger warning for \u2018Blazing Saddles\u2019 shows how far culture has gone off rails"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Ridiculous trigger warning for \u2018Blazing Saddles\u2019 shows how far culture has gone off rails<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 14, 2020 |<\/span> 4:06pm |<\/span> Updated August 14, 2020 | 4:24pm<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n Say, kids, did you know \u201cBlazing Saddles\u201d is \u201can overt and audacious spoof on classic Westerns\u201d? Well, now you do, thanks to the trigger warning that has just been slapp<\/a>ed on the movie by HBO Max, which hired University of Chicago professor Jacqueline Stewart to set things up for anyone who might be clicking on the Mel Brooks comedy thinking they\u2019re in for Swedish drama about the lingonberry harvest.<\/p>\n

Stewart informs us that the movie features \u201cracist language and attitudes\u201d but \u201cThose attitudes are espoused by characters who are explicitly portrayed here as narrow-minded, ignorant bigots. The film\u2019s real and much more enlightened perspective is represented by the two main characters.\u201d<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t say. Stewart\u2019s intro should be called \u201cBlazing Obviousness\u201d since everyone already knew all of that, and always has, for the 46 years the movie has been in release. Next week, HBO Max will be gravely informing us that the \u201cSpringtime for Hitler\u201d musical in Brooks\u2019 \u201cThe Producers\u201d should not be construed as a celebration of the Third Reich, and that the song-and-dance number about the Spanish Inquisition in Brooks\u2019 \u201cHistory of the World, Part I\u201d is not meant to glorify the practice of disemboweling non-Christians.<\/p>\n

A few years ago, conservatives who pointed out worrying or silly campus adventures in speech modification and idea policing were told, \u201cRelax, it\u2019s just college kids. Why do you care?\u201d Less than a decade later, Andrew Sullivan was able to write a column titled, \u201cWe all live on campus now,\u201d and everyone knew he was exactly right.<\/p>\n

Ridiculous, unnecessary trigger warnings are getting plastered all over everything, Realtors are afraid to use the term \u201cmaster bedroom.\u201d But HBO Max seems to think we all live in kindergarten. What kind of melonhead doesn\u2019t realize the purpose of the slurs in \u201cBlazing Saddles\u201d is to make the racists look bad? We don\u2019t need this explained to us, unless we just arrived on this planet from a faraway star system or attended Oberlin.<\/p>\n

When director Mel Brooks brought in a hot young black comic named Richard Pryor to help punch up the script, Pryor vigorously added in more uses of the N-word to make the movie sharper as well as funnier. Pryor may be more responsible than any other person for neutralizing the slur\u2019s power to wound. We\u2019d probably all be better off if the word were restored to its place in the 1970s, when it was largely robbed of its mystical properties. Now that it\u2019s unsayable, it\u2019s become scary again.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a reason no comic ever starts his set by saying, \u201cThe following remarks are jokes and I will sometimes say things facetiously.\u201d Nobody wants to have the comedy parameters laid out in advance, especially by a humor-challenged professor. HBO Max, which earlier this summer appended a similar trigger warning to \u201cGone with the Wind,\u201d is not telling its subscribers anything they don\u2019t already know, but it is giving them some useful thumb exercise as they all cringe and activate the skip function.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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