#racilicious

I really like this article. It reminds that as much as I love Community for, as the article states, "relentlessly referencing, upending and updating as many pop-culture tropes as possible," it's really important to note that Community is incredibly problematic. Community has always found a way to create character growth from their playing with tropes and types (I frequently think the show feels stale/fails at being it's own show without it and is very much some sort of post-modern television experience).

However, in playing with those tropes, sometimes they are upheld. While everyone loves Abed, and he is wonderfully lovable, he is still a lesson-giver, very much in the sense of any character throughout film or TV history that is not fully capable/able in the traditional sense. The most obvious example being Forest Gump. The characters at Greendale learn from Abed. He is the heart because of his otherness, or has to be because somehow that's politically correct, which it is not. No one should be an entire society's moral compass.

I like the conclusion of this article, but explanation of Troy and Abed's beliefs and communities still rings as an issue for me. It makes it out as if it would be for the sake of teaching an audience that is predominately white (because, here is one of the biggest issues, that most TV, including Community, is still geared towards a white audience). How do we get around that?

Is Modern Family doing that? From the clips I've seen that include Sofía Vergara it doesn't appear to be that way (But, for the record, haven't seen the show.).