Why is Daria in the background?
Dunno why someone would set some saddles on fire, but did anyone else notice, that in the alternate version everything’s slightly different… …but the moaner?
the common clay of the new west!
They actually did remake Blazing Saddles. It came out in 2022. Instead of a black sheriff, it was a kids movie about a dog that wanted to be a Samurai in a town of cats in Japan. It was originally titled Blazing Samurai, but they changed the name to Paws of Fury. It was pretty mediocre. I was watching it with my kid without knowing it was a remake of blazing saddles and I was noticing a lot of similarities with the story, then I noticed Mel Brooks was voicing one of the characters and went and looked it up. It was certainly a movie.
The Sheriff is deer?
Lol, they absolutely should have made that joke. It’s on paramount plus if you’re one of the 8 people that have it and want to piss away 2 hours.
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I always found it crazy when this would play on network television, they would not censor any instance of the N-word, but would completely remove the campfire fart scene.
Fun fact, that scene was the first audible fart joke in film, so it being censored originally makes a little sense.
Curious, in contrast I remember when they aired A Fish Called Wanda (that was a long time ago), they censored John Cleese’s response to one of Otto’s inarticulate verbal insult streams:
“How very interesting… you’re a true vulgarian, aren’t you?”…so as to not offend… people from Bulgaria, I guess? They might confuse the V with a B, then write strongly worded letters to the head of network programming?
Vulgarian sound like “vulva.” It was probably that weak similarity to dirty, evil sex that got the line cut.
It’s entirely possible that the campfire scene from Blazing Saddles is the straw that broke Hollywood’s fetish for westerns.
If so, Mel Brooks did the world a great service.
Blazing Saddles is literally about how a DEI hire was the best choice and improved everyone’s lives.
My God.
Um, I don’t think Bart was anything close to resembling a DEI hire or even affirmative action. Bart was chosen because he was seen as an almost guaranteed failure as the town would unanimously reject him for being black and decide to leave town, allowing Hedley Lamarr and his goons to scoop up Rock Ridge for pennies on the dollar for their railroad (due to the quicksand they encountered at the very beginning of the movie). They nearly did reject him in the beginning, only to start warming up to him once he showed an effective prowess at dealing with all the curveballs Lamarr threw at him (ie Mongo). They promoted the idea of Bart as a progressive choice on the surface (dare I say, a cabinet post!), but the underlying reason was to play on the citizens of Rock Ridge’s racism and coerce them to leave town.
So I’d say that maybe it was meant to be seen as an inclusive and progressive choice (in modern parlance), but the underlying reason was anything but (in the context of the movie).
They promoted the idea of Bart as a progressive choice on the surface (dare I say, a cabinet post!)
Isn’t that what racists think DEI is all about?
I mean, I guess? Every argument I’ve heard against DEI, and affirmative action for that matter, is that it promotes hand picking and placing people that aren’t white/straight into positions of leadership only for the sheer fact that they aren’t white and straight, ignoring merit and qualification. Yeah, much of the salt is them seeing someone they perceived as being lesser than them given special advantage for promotion. I absolutely believe we need some way to help ensure everyone is given an equal shot at fulfilling upper level roles. That said, promoting a person for an important role to “fill the quota” (as it were) as opposed to the best person for the job regardless of race/sex/orientation/etc is how we build the strongest teams for important departments in both government and business, but how to counteract systemic racism and bigotry is another story.
TL:DR: I dunno. And I’m a straight white guy, so I’m probably the wrong person to ask.
Every argument I’ve heard against DEI …
My take is that it does nothing to address the underlying problems of generational inequality and in fact needs to perpetuate them in order to keep DEI consultants in a job.
“Affirmative action” is literally just recording metrics. It’s wild to me how many Americans think it’s a quota or DEI hiring program or something.
Basically if a company receives over x dollars per year in federal contract money (there are different thresholds for veterans, disability, and race) they have to keep some voluntary data (applicants, interviewees, offers given, accepted, promotions) on file for 5 years. If your business doesn’t take enough federal money you do nothing. This data is not reported to any government agency or anything, it sits in a dusty binder in HR. If nobody ever files a discrimination lawsuit, it just gets shredded.
If somebody does sue claiming discrimination the dusty binder is retrieved so the judge can look at it. The plaintiff still has to prove their discrimination case in court, and the AA data could just as easily exonerate the company in court too. This benefits veterans, people with disabilities, as well as racial minorites.
This is honestly a pretty weak program, people being discriminated against usually can’t afford to sue a company, which is why some states took it a bit further. The extreme hate right wingers have for these few data points is also interesting to me. They have done a good job marketing their talking points to the left too.
Source: former corporate AA/EEOC compliance specialist, apparently you all hate that this job exists.
Eh the idea behind it is benevolent, and it’s certainly a good attempt. I think the problem lies in when administrators try to measure effectiveness of any given program, which they do via metrics, which inevitably become quotas for something so subjective to quantify, and then the entire intent behind the program(s) become a required number to hit. It’s such a difficult thing to measure, and eventually you will have overzealous managers making boneheaded hiring/promotion decisions to show their “inclusiveness,” ultimately to further their own careers. But, again, it is necessary to promote these ideals within the government, at least so people just look at each other as people, so I dunno. It’s a sticky topic.
I don’t doubt their heart is in the right place but the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
We have arrived to the parallel universe somewhat. At least the nazi cartoonist Hans Christian Graebener have made a cartoon calling Half-Life 2 a woke garbage for Eli Vance and Alyx. A few month and we will go back the the early days of the “cultural Marxism” conspiracy theories, long before Carl Benjamin and Paul Joseph Watson made it more digestable for those within the atheist and/or skeptic community, to recruit gamers to the far-right. Maybe the next wokeness detectors will also talk about if the Illuminati and/or Freemasons are depicted as either a neutral or good forces as the OG ones did, just to know where this whole thing comes from.
is that the source behind gamergate?there are quite a few right wing gamers on youtube.
Gamergate was an astroturf by regular /pol/ users that was organized on a public IRC channel, but the original “wokespotting” also involved spotting triangles and hexagrams. I still remember how much I laughed at a conspiracy head claiming the David Star in the banking scene of the first Harry Potter movie was to make goyim children to accept the Jews as their financial overlords, all while said conspiracy theorists also claimed he was not an anti-semite, because “real christians love the sinner and hate the sin” and “Judaism is a religion/sin, not a nationality”. Did manage to find others in similar vein, especially through the whole Lion King SFX controversy, but most of it disappeared the moment gamergate blew up.
The thing is, neo-nazis vowed to recruit gamers early on, but for many years, had way too high standards, and called classics like Metroid or Tomb Raider “cultural Marxist garbages” for the sin of having women outside of the kitchen, not to mention games made by the far-right. Beginning in 2012, a lot of them started to have lower standards for geek media, especially gamers. I tried to warn my then fellow skeptics that they’re looking in ways to make their conspiracy theories more digestable to “normies”, but they wrote me off as someone trying to politicize skeptic circles, as back then a lot of skeptics and atheists tried to be politically neutral to wave off “Stalinism” accusations, and otherwise most of them thought their “hidden messages and cultural Marxism in popular culture” conspiracy theories were way too insane to save. Many of them later told me I was right and were sad to discount me as some paranoid weirdo that probably also believes nazis are living on the moon and secretly controlling everything.
You really couldn’t make blazing saddles today. It’s a satire that while beloved belongs to its time. You couldn’t make “Veneno” in the 70s, and not just because it’s about a woman who became famous in the 90s. When blazing saddles came out whole categories of stories were relegated to less than savory media like pulp novels.
Also modern satire focuses on different topics because in the past 50 years a lot has changed. Even when you focus on racial issues “Get Out” is a product of a much more modern time than Blazing Saddles. And while i love Mel Brooks’s movies, I’m glad that the media about anti black racism that’s popular today is largely by black creators
I like the little butterfly effect details. Blazing Saddles even got a different person hired at this place.
Oh, and Godzilla is real.
My favorite part is that Mirror Ethan is holding a different version of the same Transformer.
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I like the alternate universe better, may Godzalli bring a swift end to the world!
He’s a protector, though. Sure, he’s pissed and smashes some shit because we woke him up, but if he gets pointed at a threat, he beats the piss out of it and goes back to sleep.
For worldwide destruction, you’d want King Ghidorah.
What was this webcomic called again?
I think I remember something with clones and a wacky storyline when I stopped reading it 20 years ago.
the author did an alternate universe in a more grounded setting where all the characters go to collage together, its really good https://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/01-move-in-day/home/
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