• blady_blah@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    But that wasn’t in the '90s. The last thing I can actually think of as an example of point-and-laugh at a race was Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961). In the '80s there was Dukes of Hazzard, but it wasn’t overtly racist, they just only had black people as bad guys in the deep South. As a kid that went right over my head.

    I think most examples in the '90s would be stereotyping races but not making fun of them. Overtly. Kind of like the token Asian or the token black guy to fill out a group of friends. I guess I want more examples to be given because when you’re younger a lot of that stuff goes of your head compared to when you’re older.

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        1 day ago

        Sorry my statement wasn’t that the only villains were black people, but rather that when black people were on the show they were always villains.

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          I’ll take your word on that.

          Separate but related. I just looked at the cast from the 80s. There is a distinct lack of black actors in general.