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Dissecting the Casual Racism of “Airplane!”
https://medium.com ^ | Jul 10, 2020 · | Nathanael Molnár

Posted on 06/30/2021 11:45:17 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: FormerFRLurker

Hey, at least he capitalizes White.


101 posted on 06/30/2021 12:40:17 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: dfwgator

Interesting back story on the jive scene. Both actors are high school friends and they basically improvised the entire scene. So did Barbara Billingsley!

https://www.openculture.com/2014/12/the-making-of-the-famous-jive-talk-scenes-from-airplane.html


102 posted on 06/30/2021 12:40:33 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: Red Badger

Thank God “Airplane” was made back in the 80’s. It could never be made today.


103 posted on 06/30/2021 12:40:58 PM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Hey, at least he capitalizes White.

I don't capitalize either "white" or "black" unless it's at the start of a sentence. Because I believe we're all more than just our skin color.

104 posted on 06/30/2021 12:44:51 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker
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To: FormerFRLurker

As it should be.


105 posted on 06/30/2021 12:48:33 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Red Badger
When a Person of Color is involved in the joke’s craft, or is even the one telling it themselves, they are making the joke at their own expense. It doesn’t target a group of people different from themselves; it is based on their own identity. That becomes your joke to tell. Had this movie been directed by three Black people, with three additional Black writers, and another three additional Black producers, these jokes would hold no venom.

Maybe this kid should see the movie Watermelon Man (1970), directed by Melvin Van Peebles and starring Godfrey Cambridge. It's about black people making fun of white people directed by and starring black people. It's just what he wants, right?

-PJ

106 posted on 06/30/2021 12:49:24 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Red Badger

Hopefully this will make people watch the movie that have never seen it before.


107 posted on 06/30/2021 12:50:14 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Red Badger

The author is an ignoramus. That kind of humor was aimed at racism to mock it and make it unacceptable. And it worked!

Racism was nearly dead ... and then the woketard dummies like this guy elected a structural Marxist to the presidency for no sound reason. Just a feel-good virtue signal. And the Marxist proceeded to set the nation on fire.


108 posted on 06/30/2021 12:50:48 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who shot Ashli Babbitt?)
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To: Red Badger

Person of Color.Person of Color.Person of Color.Person of Color.Person of Color.

This entire racist rant is just filled with Person of Color.

AKA Colored People.

That’s right. Colored People.

Racists might think Colored People is racist, yet People of Color isn’t?

Racism - like liberalism - is a mental disorder.


109 posted on 06/30/2021 12:52:08 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It’s my government that I hate.)
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To: CtBigPat

I think you are on-point of the root of all this. In itself, the self-expectation of being perfect, is depressing and impossible.


110 posted on 06/30/2021 12:55:23 PM PDT by cephalopod (The sun shines bright in my new Kentucky home)
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To: dfwgator
Guess we’ll have to cancel Kareen Abdul-Jabbar then.

 

Cancel Me?

I've been hearing that crap ever since I was at UCLA. I'm out there busting my buns every night. Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes.
 

111 posted on 06/30/2021 12:55:26 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It’s my government that I hate.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Dang! They were making fun of Joe Biden back then! Who knew?!?


112 posted on 06/30/2021 12:56:16 PM PDT by ExTxMarine (Diversity is tolerance; diverse points of views will not be tolerated.)
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To: Dubh_Ghlase

A favorite.


113 posted on 06/30/2021 12:58:02 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (LIVE FREE OR DIE)
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To: Red Badger
Soon they'll be disagreements about who's more woke....

Hopefully it then turns into a full blown sh tlib circular firing squad.

...and their cancer on this country is removed once and for all.

114 posted on 06/30/2021 1:03:58 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: Red Badger

“ The jokes involving People of Color are usually based around that person’s color, whereas”

So all the jokes about Kareem Abdul not playing defense and walking etc are about color?

Patently false nonsense.


115 posted on 06/30/2021 1:07:25 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Responsibility2nd

NAACP needs to change its name to NAAPOC.


116 posted on 06/30/2021 1:08:43 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: Red Badger

I look forward to her reviews of “Darktown Strutters” “Blackula” and “Boss Ni***r” I have a feeling she will not appreciated the humor.


117 posted on 06/30/2021 1:08:43 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Red Badger

Just an example of the problem described by Jerry Seinfeld. No one can make jokes anymore. He said that his show probably couldn’t be made today.

Example: The episode where a college reporter thinks that Jerry and George are gay. Both vociferously deny it, commenting, “Not that there’s anything wrong with that!”


118 posted on 06/30/2021 1:09:35 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision. Winston Churchill )
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To: dfwgator

That is what made All In The Family a universal hit! They jibed every person...from every direction!

Too many people only remember Archie’s racism, but dang the rest of the cast had their own issues that created stories...his feminist neighbor who just kowtowed her husband, Meathead the constant antagonist (like your reference), George Jefferson before he left for his own series, etc...

No race, sexual orientation, or political bend was left spared!


119 posted on 06/30/2021 1:09:46 PM PDT by ExTxMarine (Diversity is tolerance; diverse points of views will not be tolerated.)
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To: Sirius Lee
“The author is a racist.”

As are Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Maxine Waters, all of the Congressional Black Caucus, the “civil rights movement”, Black Lives Matter, academia and nearly all establishment media.

I’m not trying to pigeon-hole these people (as they do nearly everyone they attack).

It simply seems self-evident to me that if you frame every issue and argument in racial terms, you are, by definition, a racist.

120 posted on 06/30/2021 1:10:11 PM PDT by daler
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