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Stan wrote me:
So true, the stuff you said about satire and the New Yorker Obama cover last night. I was thinking about the fact that there seems to be a loss of it lately that we call "political correctness." I really enjoyed Blazing Saddles when I was young. I saw it with my friends, which included a black guy ... one of my best friends. We laughed at and later mimicked the stuff. So when they started showing it this year on TV, I thought, "Oh, yeah, I really enjoyed that movie." I was really saddened when they removed all the references to the "N" word. I know, I know, it's a bad thing to say. But that was Mel Brooks's point. The hero of the movie wasn't all the poorly taught, racist white people. It was the black sheriff. He was the smart one. He was the one who got things done. He even saved the town of people who hated him. That was heroic. The use of that pejorative "N" word didn't poke fun at black people. It made the white people look really bad. And when you stripped it out ... well, it didn't have the same impact.
I'm not entirely sure about satire. It seems mean. Okay. It still gets a point across ... sometimes very well, and sometimes necessarily so. And, as you pointed out, we can discuss whether we do it too much in America. Sure. But when America doesn't get the joke ... I worry about America.
I think there's a legitimate issue Biblically with the question of satirizing our leaders, but it would be a grave mistake to confuse the stifling of jokes about Barack Obama by race-based political correctness stifling with a sudden rise in Biblical awareness that we should respect our leaders. Compare the way they talk about McCain.
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