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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I noticed the mixed-race relationships, but didn't think it was heavy-handed. What I thought it illustrated (without being heavy-handed) was the extent to which bigotry is a luxury. You can indulge your racism when you're confident you'll be okay for it, but not when it might cost you your life. Surviving the zombie apocalypse requires strength in numbers, and when there aren't that many around you have to take who you can get, regardless of how you might have felt about them before. [b]I mean, Rick was a Georgia cop before all this started, we have to consider his views on race were likely not the most enlightened before this started.[/b] But on the rooftop, when Merle calls T-Dog the n-word and then beats him senseless, Rick is the one who breaks it up by handcuffing Merle to a pipe, because he knows that T-Dog is an asset to the group and they can't afford to lose him because of someone like Merle. When Siddiq arrived at Alexandria with Carl, there probably were some people who had some less-than-enlightened thoughts cross their minds, and who might have acted on those thoughts pre-apolcalypse, but they needed a doctor and he could fill that role, so they didn't have the luxury of alienating him. Same goes for gay characters like Jesus, Tara Aaron and Denise. As for the mixed-race relationships, if you're seeking out intimate physical and emotional connections with another person and there aren't that many people around, you're going to have hard time if you rule people out based on biases so it forces you to get to know people beyond their race. This goes for close friendships as well. Pre-apocalypse, the white farmer's daughter from Georgia not only probably wouldn't have started a romantic relationship with an Asian man, but also probably wouldn't have found her closest confidant after his death in a gay man.

None of this is to suggest that nothing about TWD's treatment of race has been problematic, just that I think it represents a reasonable approximation of what might happen to race relations when faced with that kind of threat. The reality would probably be messier and longer to develop, but it is a television show and character development does tend to get accelerated for the sake of storyline.[/quote]

I just want to draw your attention to the bolded.  It sounds as if *you* don't have the most enlightened views on race.  Because Rick is a cop from Georgia, you're implying he was probably also a racist?  Wow.  [/quote]

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