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ButterflyEffect · 3740 days ago · link · · parent · post: Utopia/Dystopia: Unpacking Fox's retrograde flop

I’m not sure why a white man casually comparing a man of color to a gorilla in a cage on a major American network is not being discussed as a benchmark moment in the recent history of TV racism...

Oh. Oh my. Based off of this article, I hope this show quickly and quietly burns away and is forgotten about. I had no interest in watching it to begin with, and this makes it seem even worse than I would imagine.

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b_b · 3739 days ago · link ·

Well, they're a little more historically accurate than most Utopian dreamers. In More's Utopia, the economy of the colony is based partly on the fact that each white person gets his lot of slaves, though I believe they are communally owned.