"SJW’s have always been around, so has political correctness."
They haven't always had the same amount of control over Hollywood as they do today (or at least, they haven't always injected anywhere near as much of their SJW beliefs into their productions), which is the only thing that's relevant to my post.
"I get what you’re saying, but it’s still possible to get around it."
Of course a movie with any type of content can be made today, but one that isn't onboard with the SJW agenda probably won't get backing from a major studio, which means it probably won't be very successful.
"While Blazing Saddles could cause an uproar today, it also caused an uproar in 1974."
Whatever uproar it caused in 1974 is nothing compared to the uproar it would cause today. Not only would far more people today be offended, but, unlike in 1974, everyone today has the ability to instantly publish their thoughts, no matter how inane, to a worldwide audience via the internet / social media, which would then be greatly amplified via the mass media outlets.
"We literally had a movie with comedic nazi summer camps and sassy imaginary friend Adolf Hitler get nominated for Best Picture."
I've never seen it, nor did I even know what movie you were referring to before Googling it, but this quote from a mainstream review tells me all I need to know about it:
Brian Truitt, writing for USA Today, gave the film four out of four stars, calling it "brilliant Nazi-mocking satire", praising the performances and writing
Mocking Nazis is the exact opposite of un-PC.
And also:
Variety's Owen Gleiberman said that the film "creates the illusion of danger while playing it safe" and wrote that "it lacks the courage of its own conventionality. It's a feel-good movie, all right, but one that uses the fake danger of defanged black comedy to leave us feeling good about the fact that we're above a feel-good movie."
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4 years ago
Right. It's a movie about Nazis - mocking them, made by Taika Waititi, who is a Maori, according to Wikipedia.
Not a good example of an "un-PC" movie.
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