Which is funny because The Jeffersons was a spin-off of All in the Family. I couldn't imagine either of those shows in 2020, especially back during a time wth people legit dropping N-bombs on TV.
Not only that, the n-bombs were well within context and not used gratuitously.
Both characters were deeply flawed men who cared about their family and their friends.
Archie had his prejudices and often acted with discrimination, but he also came through when it mattered most. Two examples that immediately come to mind:
- Standing up to the KKK when they want to burn a cross on Michael's/Gloria's lawn. Him claiming he would get a bunch of his black brothers (he had recently received a blood transfusion from a colored person) to kick their honky heinies was priceless and left the KKK folks dumbfounded.
- When he learned Stephanie -- a
niece cousin on Edith's side -- was Jewish, he got her a Star of David necklace and told her that one had to love everything about the person to give them such a gift.
George was similar in
The Jeffersons. As much as the Willis family was the butt of many mixed-race jokes from his mouth, he also had no qualms sticking up for them when it was the right thing to do.
There was also another episode where White Supremacists are in the same CPR class as some of the Black characters, which goes as expected. When one of the Black characters has to use CPR to save the lead supremacist's life, however, the latter's doubling down on the hate and wishing he had been left to die combined with his second in command trying to further the hateful message alienates the remaining supremacists who walk out in a based moment.
SJW's absolutely HATE those two shows.
Oddly enough, SJWs and other critics of the show miss the point that George and Archie were purposedly scripted to behave over the top with their prejudices (perhaps in a theater of the absurd style) to show how those prejudices and corresponding discriminatory actions were equally silly when one looks at them with a critical eye.