Dissecting the Casual Racism of “Airplane!”
Airplane! (1980) is a fun spoof comedy with lots of laughs, right? I watched this film for the first time the other night. I loved it. Then came the racist jokes.

When a young girl discovers a mysterious antique mirror in the basement of her ailing grandmother's house, she accidentally opens a window between time that allows her to cross over into war-torn Nazi-occupied Poland.
Airplane! (1980) is a fun spoof comedy with lots of laughs, right? I watched this film for the first time the other night. I loved it. Then came the racist jokes.
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