Comments on: The Jeffersons Pilot Made a Bizarre Argument Involving the N-Word https://popculturereferences.com/the-jeffersons-pilot-made-a-bizarre-argument-involving-the-n-word/ Brian Cronin takes a look at interesting pieces of pop culture history from the worlds of TV, film, music and more. Fri, 17 Nov 2023 14:55:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Brian Cronin https://popculturereferences.com/the-jeffersons-pilot-made-a-bizarre-argument-involving-the-n-word/#comment-771 Wed, 22 Dec 2021 17:16:55 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=784#comment-771 In reply to Ann Amst.

The point is clear. It wasn’t enough good point to merit the use of the N-word.

]]> By: Ann Amst https://popculturereferences.com/the-jeffersons-pilot-made-a-bizarre-argument-involving-the-n-word/#comment-762 Wed, 22 Dec 2021 01:11:54 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=784#comment-762 Talk about missing the point.

]]> By: Brian https://popculturereferences.com/the-jeffersons-pilot-made-a-bizarre-argument-involving-the-n-word/#comment-555 Wed, 08 Dec 2021 13:23:09 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=784#comment-555 Actually, Louise says it to George in one episode after he did something egregious, as in “N***, PLEASE!” and I believe that was the laugh that ended that act and they went to commercial.

]]> By: Garth https://popculturereferences.com/the-jeffersons-pilot-made-a-bizarre-argument-involving-the-n-word/#comment-128 Fri, 29 Oct 2021 04:46:22 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=784#comment-128 They still kept it in when they did the show “live” on ABC in 2019 but I think they bleeped it

]]> By: G. Ross https://popculturereferences.com/the-jeffersons-pilot-made-a-bizarre-argument-involving-the-n-word/#comment-124 Thu, 28 Oct 2021 23:07:51 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=784#comment-124 Historical Privilege is a thing even if it is only fifty years. If the episode was a contemporary one, I would agree with you. The chances of Tom having grown up around anyone who used the N-Word would be very unlikely and the chances of him thinking it even in the heat of anger when anything could happen would be small. However, slip back the time machine 50 years and then another 20-30 to the characters formative years in the 40s and 50s. Was it stated whether they grew up in the North or the South? The words as legitimate invectives and the worst thing you could think of might easily have come to mind even if they had never crossed the lips. Even if they were relatively enlightened and non-prejudicial. In those days the words, though frowned upon were not taboo in the way they have become since. Judge people by their cultural context, not by your own.

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