03-25-2019, 05:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-25-2019, 06:58 PM by FaceInTheCrowd.)
Not so much shackles as blinders.
In my childhood, television presented a fantasy world in which police never used excessive force or shot unarmed black children, prosecutors immediately moved to dismiss charges when they found exonerating evidence in the middle of a trial and lawyers never encouraged their clients to lie on the stand. Depending on who you are and where you grew up, it was either an obvious lie that insulted you with its denial of the reality you saw every day or set you up for a crushing disillusionment when you grew up and saw the world as it really is.
Better to show people as they are (or can be), warts and all, and let viewers decide for themselves what they think of them. We're going to anyway.
In my childhood, television presented a fantasy world in which police never used excessive force or shot unarmed black children, prosecutors immediately moved to dismiss charges when they found exonerating evidence in the middle of a trial and lawyers never encouraged their clients to lie on the stand. Depending on who you are and where you grew up, it was either an obvious lie that insulted you with its denial of the reality you saw every day or set you up for a crushing disillusionment when you grew up and saw the world as it really is.
Better to show people as they are (or can be), warts and all, and let viewers decide for themselves what they think of them. We're going to anyway.