Most of these movies make fun of certain groups using stereotypes. Blazing Saddles, like Huckleberry Finn, is included because of the N word, but if you watch it, the movie is a positive image of blacks with a negative image of racists and portrays bigoted people becoming somewhat enlightened. Twenty years or so ago when this movie came out, most black people I knew actually loved it and would watch it again and again. Now they have been told to ignore the story and instead focus on the N word.
Wow! I think Blazing Saddles qualifies for more than just the N word! "What in the wide world of sports is goin' on"? (Slim Pickens) "Out here jumpin' around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots..."
Then the scene where they do a Busby Berkley-esque version of: "Watch me, faggots!" (Dom Deluise) "Throw out your hands, stick out your tush, hands on your hips, give it a push -- that is why we call it the French Mistake, voila!"
(Madeline Kahn) "Oh, it's twue, it's twue". And Harvey Kormann calling her "You Teutonic twat"!
Then there is the recruitment line where Harvey Kormann is listening to a line-up of bigots and perverts telling their qualifications to be on his posse.
Lots more than the N word. That's why I agree with the first poster that Blazing Saddles is #1 in this category.
I think you said what I mean. "Politically" correct is used because the argument is framed as a leftist/liberal "correct" viewpoint vs. a bigoted, racisist - Republican/conservative "incorrect" viewpoint. If you follow that logic(?) conservative = bigot.
>> Most of these movies make fun of certain groups using stereotypes. Blazing Saddles, like Huckleberry Finn, is included because of the N word, but if you watch it, the movie is a positive image of blacks with a negative image of racists and portrays bigoted people becoming somewhat enlightened. <<
But that's precisely the distinction between "politically correct" and simply "offensive." (excuse me, "values challenged"). Back in the 60s through 80s, they were constantly inventing new words designed to "encourage self-esteem" among different classes. A person who failed to use the proper code words was deemed as wilfully insensitive, and therefore unfit for public office. The point was not that the person held beliefs which were offensive to voters, but that the left was attacking all non-university-certified leftists of having secret hatreds because they didn't care to brush up on the latest code words.
The right-wing equivalence would be to insist that all politicians who did not use the term, "freedom fries," were secretly French Socialists, or that those who said, "suicide bomber" instead of "homicide bomber" cared more about their buddies the terrorists than about the innocent victims.
To some extent the PC movement is wounded; although PC terms like "differently abled" still exist, the left has failed to implement, let alone enforce, new terms. This doesn't mean the dominance of the left is gone. Rather, they have become so dominant that they have invented new horrors for which there are no traditional terms. Case in point: legal contracts to continue to make oneself available for sodomy are called "marriages."
"Every Sperm is Sacred" is politically correct: it attacks a conservative institution by deliberately misstating its beliefs. Michael Moore, Bill Maher and David Duke aren't politically incorrect; they're just plain offensive. "Blazing Saddles" IS politically incorrect because in spite of the fact that it was attempting to promote racial tolerance that the left AND the right agreed on, it was attacked by the left as being racist.
Hating church, God, Christmas, America, the Republican Party, Christians, conservatives, white people, men, and cultural institutions is politically correct.
Using terminology, such as "oriental," which Noam Chomsky deems to stem from a subconscious desire to rape black children, is politically incorrect.