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COMBATING "POLACK" JOKES [460]
Hey ,All in family is acctualy pretty funny and I do not see it bashing Poles at all ,whoever say this show is portraying polish ppl as stupid,pls see "The commercial" episode and explain it to me how and where director is bashing Poles,coz I dont get it ,even though Archie is using the "P"word :).Besides Mike seems to me to be the most educated person in this family ,so how on earth is this show antipolish?
As I said before, some of the "All in the Family" shows actually potrayed the Polish character positively. But those were token shows. I don't think the Polish character's chronic unemployment and inability to provide for a separate house for he and his wife Gloria to live in made him look intelligent.
How many middle age men are living with their wives at their parent's house for a long period of time without being seen as inept stupid losers??
Also, you probably didn't see the shows where the Polish character had food drooling out of his mouth hunched over at the dinner table and Archie looks at him in disgust and says "Just look at what a dumb Polack you are". And of course the audience laughs along WITH Archie Bunker.
Its interesting how when people talk about the Polish character "Michael Stivic" they always refer to him as "the meathead Polack" or the "Dumb Polack" of the show.
The many times when I talk to people who remember the show, I have never heard them describe Michael Stivic as "the guy unfairly ridiculed as being a dumb Polack". I never heard that once.
It was also common for people, especially more impressionable young kids, to say to Polish Americans the next day after watching "All in the Family": So why are you Polacks so dumb?? "Why are you Polish people such meatheads?"
Non-Poles would also have conversations among themselves in front of Polish Americans saying "I'm SO GLAD Archie gave it to that DUMB POLACK last night!" "He was acting SO DUMB!" "What MEATHEADS those Polacks are!"
Oh yes that "Archie Bunker Show" was just so pro-Polish! LOL