When I say "allowed" i am not referring to whether or not something is legal. It is in no way illegal to tell jokes that are offensive but the outrage mob that exists online is somehow able to mobilize thousands of people to take down something in what is now called "cancel culture." If you go against the "woke" mob you will get attacked and this is bad, especially for comedy since the only way to be really funny is to be a bit edgy and edgy walks a fine line bordering on being offensive.
Personally, I hate the PC culture that exists today because I don't think that the mob actually CAN be placated. In my mind it is a bunch of people that desperately need attention and will do anything in order to achieve that. If certain forms of entertainment give into their demands, they simply make more demands, and on and on it goes in a never-ending something or other.
Some of these films only feature brief moments that the woke mob would consider not PC enough, while others it is the entire film that would invoke their ire. There are many many more examples but these are just a few that stood out for me.
There are a lot of reasons why the woke mob would go after this movie if it was made today and I would imagine there are probably people out there that are calling for it to be removed from streaming services. The main reason is because of several black stereotypes that are played out in the film most notably this "jive" sequence.
There were exactly zero people that were openly offended by this scene and people openly laughed about it because we weren't a bunch of PC assholes in the early to mid 80's.
This is significantly less well known but because of its pure 80's-ness it is worth a look today. It was obviously trying to take advantage of the Ghostbusters craze that was going on at the time and that is evident in the poster.
This film, unlike Ghostbusters was a financial disaster despite having a pretty massive budget for the time period.
It would be disallowed today for having kinds involved in extreme gun violence and the movie celebrates said violence as many films have done in the past but not so much involving kids. It would be lambasted by the woke mob for encouraging kids to play with guns because that's never happened before... remember GI Joe?
Also the kids fat shame their fat friend, the kids are foul-mouthed and frequently use gay slurs to insult other people (just like we did in the 80's) and despite being very young, they are overly sexual. It probably wouldn't help that there is virtually no non-white characters in the entire film.
I don't think I need to really explain why this wouldn't be allowed today but it is worth mentioning this film because it shows how absurd the world (primarily the USA) has become in the recent past. This movie was released a mere 12 years ago and almost no one complained about Downy Jr. playing a role in blackface and adopting a black way of speaking. Since it was meant to be stereotypical and the world was not insane back then, almost no one complained about it at all and simply laughed about it. People today would be so offended they would probably burn a theater down or at least that is what they would claim so they could cause destruction carte blache. No one would ever mention that awful movie White Chicks which essentially did the same thing in reverse or when Eddie Murphy went undercover as a white man and they people shouldn't complain about it.
But it doesn't end there. The woke mob would lose their collective shit over the very funny scene where Downy says this
It had a huge budget for a comedy at nearly 100 million dollars and did very well at the box office nearly doubling that amount.
Almost this entire film would be considered racist by the ultra-PC people of today who would completely ignore the fact that everyone enjoyed this sort of humor back in 1974. Most people still do today but are too afraid to say so. There are stereotypes about black, white, American Indian, Chinese, you name it and there is a racial or ethnic stereotype that is poked fun at in this movie. If you are not part of the PC police it is still very funny today but the only way you are ever going to be able to watch it is if you buy a DVD (does anyone even have a DVD player anymore?) or if you steal it via torrent.
There are many other examples that I am not going to dedicate an entire section to but here's some blurbs
I'm sure you can think of quite a few examples on your own since it seems the culture-climate is just out of control at the moment and no matter what you do someone out there is going to have a problem with it.
Personally, I hate what the world has become and this is part of the reason why comedy in general in both stand up and in films has taken a bad turn lately since comedians and writers have to be concerned about who they are going to offend when offense was actually part of their intention in the past.
Imagine if Andrew Dice Clay were to do stand up today? Fuggetaboutit!
