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I'd have to guess Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles." It has everything: Racial, ethnic, and xenophobic oversimplifications, sexism, homophobic innuendo, even anti-Semitic stereotypes, thinly veiled as "humor."
Not that it isn't a funny movie, but by today's standards? Can you imagine the outcome if a conservative movie producer or director created such a thing as that movie? There would be rioting, looting, and arson in the streets, as if some police officers indiscriminately gunned down a bunch of 3 year old black kids.
Which brings up the question: How is it "they" can get away with things like this, while "we" are constantly accused of what "they" are applauded for?
Who is the "they" you mean? Or the "we" for that matter?
I think anyone making Blazing Saddles today, regardless of their politics, would catch all kinds of flak for it.
By "they", I mean the liberal Hollywood elitists. There are very few actual conservatives in Hollywood, with the exception of James Woods, Jon Voight, and the third one, whose name I can't remember.
Virtually no producers or directors who I'm aware of.