Is it racist to make racism funny? Turning bigotry into a joke could be said to have a de-stigmatizing effect on it. But maybe that was all thrashed out decades ago when Archie Bunker proved a therapeutic shock to the American system in Norman Lear's "All in the Family." The trick is in the execu... -
'Aliens in America': Roll Up the Welcome Mat
Is it racist to make racism funny? Turning bigotry into a joke could be said to have a de-stigmatizing effect on it. But maybe that was all thrashed out decades ago when Archie Bunker proved a therapeutic shock to the American system in Norman Lear's "All in the Family." The trick is in the execu...-
By Tom Shales