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One can't help but wonder if this film would be considered as funny if it were poking fun of Jews in Nazi Germany.
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Actually, "one" can
easily "help but wonder" about that, since the film isn't "poking fun" at anyone but Ken Burns. Those of us who don't insist on looking for things to be offended by, reading racisim into innocent parodies where it clearly doesn't exist, or letting our own mild paranoia color everything we see have no trouble recognizing when a joke is just a joke. The fact is "one" has to be looking
awfully hard for something to get "one's" panties in a knot about for that comparison to even cross "one's" mind.
Or do you think there really
was a Negro Space program and that the film is making fun of the people who participated in it?
I could as easily say:
"One can't help but wonder if this film would be considered even mildly offensive by people who aren't smug, santcimonious, humorless gits who assume they possess a vast moral superiority to others. Didn't think so."
Is that your idea of a fair critique?
BTW, is anyone else offended by the cheap and facile use of the murders of millions of human beings as a way to criticize a film about a fictional event, or the casual invocation of name of one of the most murderous regimes in human history for the same purpose? What ever happened to a sense of proportion. For that matter what happened to the internet rule that says the first one who inokes the Nazis has declared intellectual bankruptcy and automatically loses the argument?
See, it's easy to play the "offended" card.
Regards,
Joe
