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'Racism's Everywhere' Declares Latest Episode of 'The Goldbergs'

posted 4 years ago by TMC-4 (19574)
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https://newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/lindsay-kornick/2020/11/25/racisms-everywhere-declares-latest-episode-goldbergs

November 25th, 2020 9:37 PM

The Black Lives Matter agenda must be intense if the 1980s aren’t safe anymore. In yet another example of pandering to the woke crowd, the ABC comedy The Goldbergs reminded its audience that “racism's everywhere.” BLM must be determined to leave no show untouched by its propaganda.

The November 25 episode “Eracism” starts with Adam (Sean Giambrone) being inspired after watching Do the Right Thing for the first time. Taking a cue from Spike Lee’s film, he’s spurred to tell everyone he knows about how racism is alive and well in Brooklyn. He even goes as far as to interrupt a school assembly from his teacher Mr. Glascott (Tim Meadows) to start a club to combat it.

Of course, nobody takes his outburst seriously, but sadly, not for the reasons you would think. In fact, his friends’ issue comes more from the fact that he’s too naïve about how racism is "everywhere."

[–] AmeriGirl26 (12898) 4 years ago

A pity they aren't aware that back in the 80s and 90s, the term "prejudiced" was used far more often than "racism." But then again, the writers for this show are idiots that are from Generation Z and have no idea what life was like in the 80s, and were too lazy to do research or talk to people who actually lived in that time period.

[–] TMC-4 (19574) 4 years ago

Somebody wrote on the Goldbergs subreddit that how can Adam nor the rest of his immediate family not realize racism, bigotry, or prejudice considering that they're Jewish!? And Adam has been friends with Dave Kim all this time, and never once has Dave Kim's race been brought up!?

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheGoldbergs/comments/k45vyt/how_can_we_fix_the_goldbergs_season_8_is_dying_a/

https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/112421-season-8-discussion/page/3/#comments

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheGoldbergs/comments/k0xp6u/the_goldbergs_806_eracism_discussion_thread/

[–] AmeriGirl26 (12898) 4 years ago

You'd think they would know all about bigotry, considering the history of their religion and people. It would be difficult not to know of racism with that kind of background.

[–] Olivergbyrne (685) 4 years ago

It is interesting as the real Goldberg mum hated that last episode and she wrote on Twitter that the characters felt nothing like their real counterpart in their actions. They changed showrunners in 2018 and the real Goldberg is no longer telling his family story so I have a feeling the show will keep going downhill from there.

[–] rocklyn80 (660) 3 years ago

Yup, Just pandering, because really how much of a "color" cast is Goldbergs, they have 1 token black,, 1 toker Asian, 90% of the rest of the cast is jewish.

Racism was not an advocated issue in the 80s, and as someone stated Prejudice or Bbigot would have been the term we used