Blazing saddles isn’t really centrist, more just anti-rightwing from my memory of it.
Let’s talk about the chapters shown in the snopes article above.
Chapter 3 is making fun of (an) American Student(s). This was 1969, in the middle of the Vietnam war. He’s saying they were idiots and that they shouldn’t have been protesting the Vietnam war.
Chapter six - The Yippies. The action they are doing is the fighting against two things. The first would be gentrification which is always an issue driving the poor into homelessness. The other was the bulldozing of entire neighborhoods to make way for the highways from 1957 to 1977, an act which displaced 1 million people.
Chapter seven - the Black Militants. This would include Malcolm X and the Black Panthers along with the Philadelphia organization MOVE. Hell, this was a year after MLK Jr was assassinated, and the white general public probably still saw him as an agitator. These were a movement in opposition to very overtly racist cops supported by a largely pro-apartheid populace. And the Author completely misrepresents every view they had from a brief skim over.
We could talk about the looters but I don’t think we’re ready for that convo.
Yep, you get it pretty clearly that the creator was an edgy centrist.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
Next you’ll be calling out ‘Blazing Saddles’ for it’s offensive language and sexism.
Blazing saddles isn’t really centrist, more just anti-rightwing from my memory of it.
Let’s talk about the chapters shown in the snopes article above.
Chapter 3 is making fun of (an) American Student(s). This was 1969, in the middle of the Vietnam war. He’s saying they were idiots and that they shouldn’t have been protesting the Vietnam war.
Chapter six - The Yippies. The action they are doing is the fighting against two things. The first would be gentrification which is always an issue driving the poor into homelessness. The other was the bulldozing of entire neighborhoods to make way for the highways from 1957 to 1977, an act which displaced 1 million people.
Chapter seven - the Black Militants. This would include Malcolm X and the Black Panthers along with the Philadelphia organization MOVE. Hell, this was a year after MLK Jr was assassinated, and the white general public probably still saw him as an agitator. These were a movement in opposition to very overtly racist cops supported by a largely pro-apartheid populace. And the Author completely misrepresents every view they had from a brief skim over.
We could talk about the looters but I don’t think we’re ready for that convo.
First, it’s funny to me that you care so much about a comic book that’s over 50 years old.
Second, the magazine had a long history of attacking everyone and everything, including themselves.