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LiberalFighter

(53,544 posts)
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 08:28 PM Jan 2025

Abbott Elementary

Are people actually watching this show?

Seems it gives minorities a bad name. Am I seeing it wrong?

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Girard442

(6,741 posts)
2. Not my favorite show, but anytime I've seen it, they seemed to treat their characters OK. YMMV.
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 08:35 PM
Jan 2025

J-9

(108 posts)
4. Very good show
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 08:47 PM
Jan 2025

Characters are fun. I've never heard anyone say it made minorities look bad. As a black woman and a teacher, I think the show is on point.

kimbutgar

(25,852 posts)
5. I like it and I don't think it makes minorities look bad
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 08:57 PM
Jan 2025

The principal does not look qualified and self centered but one of the schools I substitute at has a worst principal who is a white, self centered and has caused morale to go low.

a kennedy

(34,180 posts)
6. Ditto to like the show very much......
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 10:13 AM
Jan 2025
Never got the impression it was giving Blacks a bad name.

Behind the Aegis

(55,608 posts)
8. How does it give minorities a bad name?
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 01:12 AM
Jan 2025

My husband and I love the show and have watched from the beginning. So, how do you think this show is giving minorities (which ones BTW) a bad name?

yellowdogintexas

(23,401 posts)
9. Not a fan, because I don't like shows in which the characters talk to the viewers instead of to each other
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 05:17 PM
Jan 2025

It is as if the showrunners think everything has to be explained.
Whatever, it irritates me.

Parks and Recreation started out with that in a huge way. My daughter had told me I would like it, and I told her why I didn't. She told me to just stick with it and somewhere in the second season we were actually watching the story

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