Sausage Party Racist?

http://www.salon.com/2016/08/15/sausage-partys-race-problem-this-equal-opportunity-offender-is-just-plain-offensive/

Sausage Party, the new R-rated food themed cartoon written in part by Seth Rogen was released this summer to some mixed reviews many saying its hilarious and many saying it's too racially insensitive. I personally have yet to see it and really wish to, but the criticism it's gotten is interesting to me. I wanted to ask the class what, as artists, you all think of race and how it is discussed in humorous art expressions. I know its 2 weeks of me posting something race based but I think its a really important subject in any profession art or other. I personally grew up watching comedic content that is almost exclusively based on race and race relations in our country. The stand up of Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Dave chappelle along with others like them. They were so brilliant because, as this film is described, the were equally hard on what ever group they were making fun of including along with themselves! For all of them, especially Chappelle, the jokes were cutting and humorous but in turn were meant to show that our differences should be celebrated and not demonized because in reality we aren't that different. But I wonder if in todays sensitive "PC" climate if any mention of race is too dangerous. Or is todays climate even that "PC"? I think of Mel Brooks films like Blazing Saddles, a story of a city that lies in the way of a new railroad so in an attempt to drive the people away one of the governors cohorts tells him to appoint a black man as the cities sheriff. Instead of driving them away the sheriff actually convinces the people to stay and fight off the folks trying to build the railroad. The story relies on racism for much of the humor but while doing so it also kind of shows how dumb stereotypes are. Perhaps Sausage Party is just a modern interpretation of the same style of comedy.