• shalafi@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        Yep. And that’s the joke.

        Anyone notice that we never see All in the Family or The Jeffersons media, and haven’t for a decade or two? How odd. Two of the most popular sitcoms of all time just… disappeared.

        Those shows taught my young self more about racism and it’s ills than anything else in life. Yes, Archie and George were racist AF! And they were the buffoons, always losing because of their boolshit. (OK, maybe it was too heavy handed for today’s audiences, I’ll grant that.)

        Liberals: “NAOOWW! THAS RACISTH!”

        Conservatives: “WOKE!”

        What a damned shame. Fucking meatheads.

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          Not every joke lands. I think this is one of those where there’s some obvious intent behind it but the joke is a bit too high concept (and not really that funny tbh) in relation to the controversy. And I say this as a big community fan - they went for shock value and it didn’t really work because there was no punchline besides “it looks like blackface but technically isn’t blackface.”

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        1 month ago

        Meanwhile, Aerodynamics of Gender is good to go:

        One of the best episodes of the show though for sure.