is that the qanon anti semite actor or the guy who made blazing saddles i always get mixed up

Blazing Saddles guy

Ok I'm not going to say he isn't problematic. But!

Blazing saddles destroyed a genre by being such a scathing satire.

There were more things that did it, but pre blazing saddles tv was like 80% cowboy stuff. Post Blazing Saddles the genre practically disappeared.

To make a fictional comparison: Imagine that at the hight of ACAB thoughts and awareness, (like late 2020 vibes I think?) A movie came out that ripped cop procedural shows so bad that by the next year almost all of them are off the air and less than 10 new ones come out and they all are dropped by the end of the next year.

Like, that's how hard Blazing Saddles went. People did hate it. He ruined the image of the idealistic picture of cowboys and westerns being perfect pillars of American morality.

Blazing Saddles didn't just say that the average Western character was racist, he called them idiots. Straight to the camera in the most loveable moment of the show.

This isn't to excuse anything in it. Just to let you know that this shot was a head shot to an American revisionist giant.

And that counts for something.