Esmeralda
Diamond Member
. You need to be able to separate fiction from reality. Just Google Sherman Hemsley and you will find how he talks about George Jefferson being the opposite of what he himself believed.
What are you, accusing me of living in a fantasy world?
I've seen with my own eyes on what an obnoxious racist scumbag that he was.
As bigoted as Archie was, at least he was likeable and not a hateful scumbag like Sherman Hemsley was.
Shermen Hemsley was not George Jefferson. Sherman Hemsley was an actor playing a part, a role, a character named George Jefferson. In fact, most people found George likeable, as they did with Archie Bunker, though people disagreed with their philosophies, the philosophies of the characters.
Both programs were SATIRE. They were making fun of racist thinking, racist thinking by both blacks and whites. If you hated George Jefferson as you say you do/did, it is because you missed the satire and the whole point of the program.
WikiSatire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement.[1] Although satire is usually meant to be funny, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit as a weapon and as a tool to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society.
A common feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm—"in satire, irony is militant"[2]—but parody, burlesque, exaggeration,[3] juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing. This "militant" irony or sarcasm often professes to approve of (or at least accept as natural) the very things the satirist wishes to attack.
Satire is nowadays found in many artistic forms of expression, including literature, plays, commentary, television shows, and media such as lyrics.
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