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"It's fine if that's your point of view, but you can't tag that onto something the show "claims" when it doesn't."

I think I've made pretty clear what my point of view is.

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"You're clearly side stepping the giant fumble you've made as the basis for your argument.

Don't say the show "claims to represent the average American family" when it's you who thinks it does. Period.

The only thing the show "claims" is that Diana views the Goodmans as "the perfect loving family." If you think that has to mean a white family, that's a big problem that you need to deal with, not anyone else."

And what country do the Goodmans live in? I don't think its France. So the show and the music tells us they're the perfect, loving, American family. I'm so sorry for adding "average" in there. That one word, obviously, changes the basis of my entire argument? Except...it doesn't at all. You're making a big deal over what really genuinely is semantics.

I don't think it has to mean a white family, and you clearly were playing the selective reading game with my posts. I'm done defending a completely logical point to people who clearly have the reading comprehension of fourth graders.

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"If you don't think a "perfect loving family" has to be a white family, why are you using the show as a point of merit for being a proponent of the impact of the family being white? You want to have your cake and eat it too, but it doesn't work that way. "

I'm so tired of this. I'm not bigoted at all, and I don't come from ANYONE'S definition of the traditional American family, which is maybe why I can understand this without any difficulty, whereas you're stuck in your naive little dream world, where you can misinterpret people to continue on your brave crusade to continue being ignorant.

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