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When watching a classic film, does anyone else have a hard time discerning whether the film is being explicitly racist or making a satirical comment on racism?

Asked by rockfan (14627points) October 10th, 2020 from iPhone

For example, in the 1936 classic “My Man Godfrey”, a rich, spoiled socialite says “If a colored person can have 5 children why can’t he?” (Referencing Godfrey, a poor, homeless man, who is revealed to having 5 children with a dark skinned “Indian” woman)

I don’t know whether the writers are being racist and insensitive, or just making that character unlikable.

What do you think?

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