Tom you’re crazy 

The behaviour is specifically called out as absurdly racist, and Jordan’s character physically attacks Hamm’s, and is portrayed as being justified in doing so.

Wait- you think that the character Jane Krakowski played on 30Rock wasn’t “bad”? That’s like her entire character, she literally had to be talked down from making a blog called “Jenna’s Side” because she didn’t think it sounded at all like “genocide”.

Also in the “Believe in the Stars” episode points more to how clueless Jenna is. And the rest of the cast who sees her immediately steps in to stop her.

again...context. chad doing it in real life is not a commentary on anything, but instead proves chad is an asshole. if chad was on a 30 rock episode, and tina fey wanted to show chad as an ignorant asshole, then it’s written to show that point. it doesn’t make the writer a racist if they’re showing their character as…

The one with with the hand transplant is the one that’s straight up racist with no way to excuse it. 

If Chad is a character on a scripted show and the joke is obviously on him for being so stupid, then yeah. 

That’s the entire point of the Jon Hamm segment in that episode though, like it was satire directly aimed at historical blackface and how overtly offensive it was, it wasn’t irony it was the entire point...and why Tracey Morgan’s character eventually just straight up strangles Jon Hamm lol.

People don’t consider context at all anymore. So you can have a show that is completely presenting a subject in the worst possible light—completely denouncing it and showing how it is offensive—but the show will be dragged for even bringing up the subject at all.

That’s such a better approach. Most gestures like this one seem to basically come down to white people wanting to gentrify history in order to absolve themselves of all past wrongdoing, but trying to erase the past does no one any favors. Just keep the episode, but include a disclaimer. Even Disney Plus does that shit!

As a huge, unabashed 30 Rock fan, I’m gonna say here that I kinda wish they would put back up the 3rd season episode as well as the Christmas attack zone episode. Personally, I think that Believe in the stars has enough context to make it clear that Jenna is being an asshole (They could put some sort of disclaimer…

Exactly, now satire of racism is off limits?  Guess we need to jus burn every copy of “Blazing Saddles”!

Hell, the joke from the Live Show is about how insanely offensive and awful blackface was during that era.

I’m also a middle aged, cis-hetero, white, male and if people say they are offended then I won’t argue they shouldn’t be because that’s just dumb for me to do. But if we start making perfection the only acceptable option for historical figures and entertainers then we aren’t going to have a lot to watch. I don’t know…

EXACTLY. My wife and I just re-watched all of 30 rock with my son within the last two months, so these clips are fresh in my mind. They definitely wouldn’t have run those jokes today (one was a notably uncomfortable to watch in the current context as we happened to watch it literally during the height of all the…

The show is a parody of how the entertainment industry works, and Jenna, the character who donned blackface the first two times, is such a vain airhead that it’s perfectly in character for her not to understand that blackface is offensive. 

Ahem, Rowlet is 100% the best Alolan starter. No question

US QAF was nuts, and though I was in a bit of a party boy phase myself at the time I found the portrayal of gay life as one big club night absurd. But it was the first time gay physicality was included in anything this side of a porno. Before that all we ever got was emo looks, maybe a chaste smooch and a fade out long…

There’s comfort in that world, where even Victor’s comparably “difficult” parents are supportive of gay people if not wild about the idea of having a gay son, but it means Love, Victor has nothing to add to existing television conversations around any of the topics it introduces up-front.

This seems to be a major misreading. Myles isn’t saying that Love Victor fails to represent every inch of the spectrum. It’s that this show is heavily sanitized for a world that doesn’t need to be and has had multiple other shows that have already handled what Love Victor does but better.

I love Looking, but Love…