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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: Red Badger
I think it’s easy for people to dismiss this as being a “product of its time.” I agree, but that doesn’t excuse the racism

No, what excuses it is the fact that it's not an issue but the author is making race the issue. It takes a racist to make race an issue. The author is a racist.

21 posted on 06/30/2021 11:54:19 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Red Badger

I think the “not understanding jive” joke could be interpreted as making fun of the whites as well as the blacks.


22 posted on 06/30/2021 11:54:20 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Red Badger

So Ebonics isn’t really a thing? An elderly white woman being up to date on ethnic slang isn’t absurd? Good to know! I believe the two black actors ad libbed all the “jive.” You wouldn’t want cultural appropriation!


23 posted on 06/30/2021 11:54:31 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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How about the movie that Airplane! was derived from, Zero Hour! starring Dana Andrews?

Or does that get a pass since it was set in Canada . . . ?
24 posted on 06/30/2021 11:54:44 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Red Badger

Nathanael Molnár is additional proof that liberalism is a disease, a sickness of the mind. They see goblins lurking under their beds and everywhere. Things are so scary for them they needs masks and desire lock downs. It helps them cope.


25 posted on 06/30/2021 11:54:59 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: Red Badger

Get a life losers.


26 posted on 06/30/2021 11:55:00 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Dubh_Ghlase

Blazing Saddles was written by Richard Pryor.


27 posted on 06/30/2021 11:55:05 AM PDT by MattMusson (Sometimes the wind blows too much)
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To: Red Badger

“that doesn’t excuse the racism, nor does it mean that we can’t dissect why these jokes are problematic.”

Oh. Dry up!


28 posted on 06/30/2021 11:56:03 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: al baby

Hey Mon!

“What you mean you only have one job?”


29 posted on 06/30/2021 11:56:09 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

Well, we all knew this was going to happen eventually.


30 posted on 06/30/2021 11:56:18 AM PDT by Ronin (White privilege is not having to fake your own hate crimes. (HT: CrappieLuck))
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To: Red Badger

Nathaniel seems like a real poofter.


31 posted on 06/30/2021 11:56:24 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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To: wbarmy

That film made fun of blacks too. Remember The Black Man’s Kryptonite?


32 posted on 06/30/2021 11:57:07 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: All

Sorry I don’t speak jive


33 posted on 06/30/2021 11:57:27 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: Red Badger
“Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?”
 


34 posted on 06/30/2021 11:57:32 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have the United States in his holy protection" - GW)
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To: Red Badger

Glad I got that one before it’ll be banned.


35 posted on 06/30/2021 11:58:05 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Identify As Vaccinated)
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To: Army Air Corps

Hey Molnar, don’t watch, don’t laugh. Airplane! is hysterically funny. If the racial gags weren’t based upon truth, no one would laugh. Go give yourself a wedgie.


36 posted on 06/30/2021 11:58:18 AM PDT by alstewartfan (The dawn is turning away The ghost of Charlotte Corday. Al Stewart)
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To: wbarmy

A great black movie from the 1980s was Robert Townshend’s “Hollywood Shuffle”, especially the “Black Acting School” and “Sneaking Into The Movies”.

“Make my day?....Do fifty bullets in yo ass, make yo day?”


37 posted on 06/30/2021 11:58:47 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

“One of the White passengers turns out to be “fluent in Jive.”

Apparently this dope doesn’t know that Barbara Billingsley played the mother in Leave it to Beaver. That was the joke.

The best scene was with Lew Alcindor (Kareem) as the co pilot grabbing the white kid in response to the accusation that he played lazy. Go have your old man drag Walton or Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes.
Not racist. Came across as real.

The most shocking scene was when the young white girl said that she liked her coffee black, like her men. It reminded white males that black males are purported to be well endowed. Or in essence superior. Not racist at all.


38 posted on 06/30/2021 11:59:09 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul (s)
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To: Red Badger

My ex wife was a liberal, and I came to the conclusion that she had what I call Perfect Being Syndrome. Liberals, in their minds, are supposed to be good people and perfect in every way. Humor points out the quirks and imperfections we all have. Conservatives understand that we are all imperfect and we can laugh at ourselves and others. Liberals, on the other hand, see it as a personal attack. You are questioning their perfection.


39 posted on 06/30/2021 12:00:48 PM PDT by CtBigPat (The time of Crisis is ending. Now comes Normalization.)
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To: Red Badger
F*** you. Leave "Airplane" alone.


40 posted on 06/30/2021 12:01:19 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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