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In Living Color
1990 · TV series · 30 min episodes · 5 seasons
Created by Damon Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans
Created by stars Keenen Ivory Wayans and Damon Wayans, this Emmy-winning sketch series offers cutting-edge satire and features a host of talent, including Jamie Foxx, Jim Carrey, David Alan Grier and Tommy Davidson.
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I used to love watching Family Matters when I was a kid. I grew up in the 80s/90s. There was nothing "DEI" about Family Matters because it was just a show they made that focused on black families. However it was wildly popular for everyone because the things the families experienced were universal. Skin color does not matter.
Things changed drastically in 2020 (or probably even 2014). People started picking specific events to showcase black hatred. Some kind of specific moment where a cop killed a black person. That stuff happens and it does suck. But again, all of the people being accused of black hate literally loved "in living color" just a couple decades before.
A family friend's husband was shot to death because he didn't open a door to the police as he was going through an "episode" in his bedroom. His wife had called the police because he was yelling threatening things at her. The couple was white. Why didn't that make the news - it didn't fit all the narratives.
I would say most people on the left are in a cult created by the mainstream media and told exactly what to think in all these situations. The leftist cult needs to enrage people to support its causes. It's causes are linked to pulling at your empathy, not at pulling at good policies. Even if there is a grain of truth to "climate change", the selling of it was designed to get votes. The other side of it all has been reactionary. At this point people on the right are just like - ok, what's the new rage going to be this month, and why do I even care anymore. And for the most part its because every rage cycle is entirely predicated on the right combination of ingredients they can mix together to whip people into emotional thinking.
You don't have to EXCUSE Scott Adams for knowing this truth and then start speaking it.
Did AOC get leftist backlash as large as Good when she said to stop chanting for Hamas the other day? That's what the right has been saying for 3 fucking years.
Did Iran protests where reports of 12k people dead get encampments on the lawn of Columbia?
What about when Hamas murdered a bunch of Palestinians on a video a few months ago?
What FAKE rage cycle do you all want to keep participating in?
Well, we now have positive queer role models in other shows mixed in with those caricatures, which is leaps and bounds above what we used to have. Go back and watch In Living Color's Men On Film, which is one of the more "positive" portrayals. I find it incredibly cringeworthy today.
Shows like Next Top Model and Queer Eye play up their queerness for ratings, but that's actually progress: queer folks (actually played by other queer folks, not straight people parodying us) are being queer on camera, and people want to watch them for that. Millions of people. It's actually the point of those shows. That's huge!
Commonly people's first reaction to things they don't understand or things that are unusual is fear. I used to resent Will and Grace for being over the top, contrived, and playing on stereotypes. But I think, like Big Bang Theory, however cringeworthy the humor is, they've both put gay folks and nerdiness in prime television slots. People watch them, and they become less "foreign" to millions of televison watchers. They're made relateable (simply because not as many folks would watch it if it wasn't), and in turn nerdiness and queerness are made relateable and understandable. I don't need to watch either, but... I don't have to. It's not for me.