"Poor black kids move in with rich white family" Is that offensive in any way? Could this show be made today without the PC police complaining? I guess it did offend some critics back in the day, so I ask, is this a borderline offensive show?

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If Mr. Drummond had treated Willis and Arnold differently than he treated his own daughter Kimberly that would have been offensive. But he treated then like they were his own children which to me makes this a heartwarming story not an offensive one.

It's not as if the show was asserting that every black child was poor or that all old white men were rich; just the ones featured in that show. The kids weren't portrayed as stereotypes and neither was Mr. Drummond.

Tempest in a teapot, if you ask me.

"Poor black kids move in with rich white family" Is that offensive in any way? Could this show be made today without the PC police complaining? I guess it did offend some critics back in the day, so I ask, is this a borderline offensive show?

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQvaKu5TW2XYHw-8TrsWEynv5qgZyDDW_Hx6AbuoeUE0FDnWKHLOw

The critics who slammed the racial differences on Diff'rent Strokes back in the late 70s were more than likely your Archie Bunker-types, the type that were shocked back in the 50s when they saw a black lady on Sing Along with Mitch.

"Poor black kids move in with rich white family" Is that offensive in any way? Could this show be made today without the PC police complaining? I guess it did offend some critics back in the day, so I ask, is this a borderline offensive show?

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQvaKu5TW2XYHw-8TrsWEynv5qgZyDDW_Hx6AbuoeUE0FDnWKHLOw




I don't find it offensive at all, even though some of the eps' topics were about racism, bullying and pedophilia.

"Poor black kids move in with rich white family" Is that offensive in any way? Could this show be made today without the PC police complaining? I guess it did offend some critics back in the day, so I ask, is this a borderline offensive show?

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQvaKu5TW2XYHw-8TrsWEynv5qgZyDDW_Hx6AbuoeUE0FDnWKHLOw

I don't find it offensive either. It's true, now everything has to be PC...It did offend back in the day.Todd Bridges said they got complaints "from white people, from black people" because they went "across so many barriers and so many lines" :) And Conrad Bain even received a letter from the Klan...(and I don't mean the Wu-Tang Clan) :confused: :mad:

"Poor black kids move in with rich white family" Is that offensive in any way? Could this show be made today without the PC police complaining? I guess it did offend some critics back in the day, so I ask, is this a borderline offensive show?

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQvaKu5TW2XYHw-8TrsWEynv5qgZyDDW_Hx6AbuoeUE0FDnWKHLOw


No

I don't find it offensive either. It's true, now everything has to be PC...It did offend back in the day.Todd Bridges said they got complaints "from white people, from black people" because they went "across so many barriers and so many lines" :) And Conrad Bain even received a letter from the Klan...(and I don't mean the Wu-Tang Clan) :confused: :mad:


Hope he told the Klan to shut their traps...and I don't mean Wu-Tang either...

I was offended at first. It illustrated something which didnt happen, white humans have been very unkind to black humans, to me it was a farce to have this fake family on tv while in reality things weren't so good.

However, I was wrong, and the show was excellent, and as you know dealt with many worthy issues. in non-offensive ways.

Eventually coming to believe the show would improve race relations. ;)
(did it?)