New Fox Sitcom Full of ‘Disparaging Portrayals of White Men’

Noel Sheppard
Newsbusters
August 2, 2013

Dads

So much for that post-racial society we were promised if Barack Obama became the first black president.

Seth MacFarlane has a new sitcom coming to Fox this fall apparently filled with lots of racial jokes…all directed at white men, of course.

The cast and producers of Dads spoke at the Television Critics Association’s summer tour Thursday, and according to The Wrap, were rather upfront about the show’s content:

Stereotypes abound on “Dads,” and come from the old-school-in-a-bad-way, socially out-of-step dads. One mistakes a woman of color for the maid. There’s a joke likening a boxing match to a game of “punch the Puerto Rican.” A young Asian woman dresses up as an anime character.

But in every case, the real target of the joke is the white male making it. […]

“Just to be fair, these are some pretty disparaging portrayals of white men,” joked star Seth Green.

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