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In reply to the discussion: The Roseanne revival is incredibly honest about life in Trump's America [View all]lunatica
(53,410 posts)132. Exactly!
Archie Bunker was deliberately made to look like a modern day deplorable of low intelligence and shallow reasoning, if even that. He was not there to normalize racism and sexism. He was there to show the stupidity and ignorance of it. To blow it up by taking it out of the shadows and put an unblinking spotlight on it. The humor was pure genius. It was the sugar which made it easier to face.
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The Roseanne revival is incredibly honest about life in Trump's America [View all]
yallerdawg
Mar 2018
OP
Except Carroll O'Connor was a liberal. He wasn't a Nixon humper in real life.
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2018
#9
Alt-right? Roseanne is now a white nationalist? Where exactly did you get that?
Hekate
Mar 2018
#110
Also, the point of All in the Family was to show how ridiculous and backward Archie's views were
EffieBlack
Mar 2018
#42
You don't find it strange that they injected "color" into the show by casting a cute black child but
EffieBlack
Mar 2018
#60
There are a number of appearances and characters coming up in future episodes.
yallerdawg
Mar 2018
#64
You think that having a black child on the show isn't "tokenism" but having a black adult on is?
EffieBlack
Mar 2018
#67
When I was a kid I remember my friend's father was reading The Gulag Archipelago, pretty dense stuff
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2018
#12
I think yallerdawg is pointing out that the writer of the article is talking about
Demit
Mar 2018
#90
I disagree. They portrayed Roseannes sister as an unhinged nutjob liberal woman.
Trust Buster
Mar 2018
#20
And yet here we are discussing it. Sit-coms have often been social commentary.
nolabear
Mar 2018
#38
Murphy Brown will be interesting as well. Im so sad Robert Pastorelli is gone.
nolabear
Mar 2018
#44
I love how they stick a black grandchild in there to prove how so not racist Roseanne is
EffieBlack
Mar 2018
#41
l will make the bold prediction that I will not watch 1 second of the show.
CentralMass
Mar 2018
#69
Meh, I'm rather tired of the recent trend of revivials of old shows on TV.
Tommy_Carcetti
Mar 2018
#88