>> 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.
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.
You're good! And you totally "get it". Thanks for the comments.