Entertainments likes THE PRODUCERS and THE BOOK OF MORMON (and, yes, SOUTH PARK) used to be given a pass because the argument was that, in making fun of absolutely everybody, they were equal-opportunity offenders. In the perception of many/most people, that made the satire okay. But this doesn't seem to still be true in the present climate.
FWIW, my memory of MORMON is that the Ugandan characters are generally represented as wiser than the Americans -- as, for example, in the way that they recognize religious scriptures as metaphors that are not to be taken literally. But I suppose there are still some stereotypes involved in the portrayals of all of the characters. |
