I am tired of right wing people assuming all liberals are the super PC *beep* types... I'm as liberal as one can get (I'd go as far to say that I'm a socialist) and I think the world has gotten way too PC - That being said, there are way too many people who are "anti-PC" which is an excuse to simply be racist. How can a father loving his daughter and accepting her choice be PC *beep* The show isn't saying the father can't say she's nuts for making that choice (in fact I think he does in episode 6), it's simply saying he loves her anyway, as a good father should.
My theory about PC *beep* is that you can make fun of someone for WHO they are (an *beep* a hipster etc.) but not WHAT they are (Black, Gay etc.)...
Do people go overboard and say you can't use words like Chick, or Midget, definetely, but there are words you can't say, like the N-word, or Fagg*ot, or Retard (Though I admit I am guilty of this sometimes) etc. That's not being overly sensitive, it's just being a decent human being... I think that's the whole point of the comedy in this show, They tell the story as it was in the 70's, these people weren't racists or bigots, they were simply misinformed... I use the scene where Frank is afraid of the black guy in the inner city as an example, he's obviously not a racist (he has a good friend who is black) he is simply ignorant to the fact that not everyone who lives in poverty is a criminal... He is guilty of stereotyping, not racism...
Just like anything, people go too far with things, and the PC movement has done just that... However, I think there are enough people out there who aren't complete tools, who see the difference in a joke and a racist/homephobic statement, but that in no way allows people to hate people for being different.
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