Posted on 12/06/2023 7:03:09 AM PST by Red Badger
“Good riddance to liberal trash. 12/6/2023, 8:12:02 AM by nwrep”
Couldn’t agree with you more. We got assigned to watch this crap in grade school, I remember it clearly, I was already starting to hate television and then we were forced to watch this absolute garbage. Like popular entertainment is supposed to make your skin crawl, right? You’re supposed to be “challenged” and blah-de-blah.
The best part it was roman catholic priests and nuns telling our folks not to object to it, it’s culture, and “challenging” and all this and that. So we had to sit there trying to do our “assignment” while Dad was in the background dissing it with scathing rhetoric that scared us.
Young people on social media acting like “Oh, Archie Bunker is VERY COOL, actually!” like “this is conservatism” when Lear was mocking patriotic working-class conservatives and goading an entire generation into mocking them. (And it worked.)
*spits*
May you be reborn as the retarded son of a moslem illegal immigrant cab driver and his 2nd wife who is also his cousin living on the 485th story of a highrise in a 15-minute city in Pakistan.
"Leftist Propaganda" is a much pithier way of saying the same thing.
AITF was enjoyable in the day. Archie wasn,t always the brightest bulb. And meathead was to represent the younger generation with the cause of the day. Of course Jean Stapleton was the greatest character as Archie’s victim of husbandness
People tend to forget that many liberals didn’t like Lear’s character of Meathead - a stereotypical hippy who couldn’t hold a job. Yes, there was Archie the racist, but Lear also created black characters who were bigots George Jefferson frequently had issues with his mixed-race neighbors - he often used words like honky and zebra. And the character Fred Sanford had his prejudices, too, like when he had an appointment with a white nurse and said, “I ain’t goin’ in there with that ugly old white woman!” Lear created some good balance in that regard, showing that all people can have prejudices.
Neither John Amos, not Esther Rolle, if she were still alive, would agree with you. They felt Good Times was nowhere near a true experience and Esther was furious that Lear wanted her ‘husband’ to abandon the family to cover Amos’ contract dispute with Lear.
“He deeply loved our country”
He just hated the people who lived in it.
Trivia question:
What was Redd Foxx real name?
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.....John Sanford......................
>The best part it was roman catholic priests and nuns telling our folks not to object to it, it’s culture, and “challenging” and all this and that. So we had to sit there trying to do our “assignment” while Dad was in the background dissing it with scathing rhetoric that scared us.
Young people on social media acting like “Oh, Archie Bunker is VERY COOL, actually!” like “this is conservatism” when Lear was mocking patriotic working-class conservatives and goading an entire generation into mocking them. (And it worked.)<
Exactly! Not only was AITF slamming white males, it was slamming patriotism. It became cool to make fun of my class of people.
I still think that was Michelle Obama’s secret service code name.
Agreed. Lear may have been intending to make Archie look bad for lack of a better word, but instead millions of white men directly identified with Archie or knew someone like him "at the docks" or as a drinking buddy, and Lear portrayed him having a heart.
AITF jumped the shark fairly fast, though, having Luciferian Sammy Davis Jr. on to shuck and jive his way through S2E21.
In his day Lear was a raving leftist trying to subvert everything in sight....
but by today’s standards he was open minded on many topics and most of his shows would be banned immediately as right wing extremist insurrectionist and racist.
Rush doing that with someone at ideological odds made an impression on me. It said that conservatism must always have the high ground, no matter how ugly and mean the opposition gets. Conservatives should never compromise but they can be the better person.
Andy Griffith left "The Andy Griffith Show" in 1968, "All In The Family" debuted 1971. OTOH "Mayberry RFD" was indeed cancelled as part of the Rural Purge or Hickstallnacht or Exurbageddon or Appalachidoom.
Every TV show or movie depicts blacks as drug dealers, drug abusers, gangstas, criminals or deadbeats on welfare with few redeeming qualities.
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Well that’s what they teach at “Black Acting School”
Language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ASZ6K9cPNk
He capitalized on the trend but he didn't start it. Just look at 'The Honeymooners' (1955) which inspired the Flintstones (1960).
Ditto that....
Yep, Norm Lear was obviously a huge racist, what with his writing and creating all those tv shows that were so racist they would not be allowed to broadcast today.
Leftists loved WWII because they were fighting on behalf of their beloved Soviet Union.
They were hardcore isolationists before Hitler attacked the Soviet Union.
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