• inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    You just listed the exact reasons the show is copaganda.

    American Police are not lovable goofballs full of historically oppressed minorities realizing they are the bad guys. They are not “tackling issues”, they are lampshading and white washing them. Take the episode where Peralta meets the old detective from the book he loves on and is like

    Oh wow, old school police were racist… glad they aren’t anymore!

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      13 hours ago

      And holt reminded him that it’s still a narrative that needed to be corrected. What about the one where Terry was profiled? Or holt was denied his promotion?

      It’s pretty clear that you wouldn’t approve of any cop show that tries to work through these issues, so I’m not going to bother arguing with you. I think they did a great job, a lot of those episodes were very hard to watch because they were confronted with choosing a career under one pretended and then saw the reality. To do that with a comedic tone is incredibly hard, and I think they did well.

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        11 hours ago

        It’s pretty clear that you wouldn’t approve of any cop show that tries to work through these issues

        Well I definitely wouldn’t say that, I’m a big fan of The Wire and We Own This City. All three are different flavors of copaganda, I just feel B99 lampshaded systemic issues instead of confronting them.

        However I do agree that there isn’t use in arguging, and since we both made our opinions clear you go have a good day. ♥️

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      14 hours ago

      Oh wow, old school police were racists… glad they aren’t anymore!”

      Whoosh

      You

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      14 hours ago

      Somehow I feel like there’s probably sarcasm on that sentence that doesn’t translate from spoken words to text.

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        I didn’t think it was possible to take that sentence literally, especially knowing it is from a comedy show about the police.