Anti-Semitic remark directed toward at Det. Goldblume

I'm curious: have you been to The Golden Girls forum to register your pain over calling grown women "girls?" How about all the shows in the fifties which referred to black Americans as "Negroes," when they deigned to refer to them at all? The world is waiting for you to reveal the terrible, hidden truth--people in the past expressed bigotry in ways which are no longer acceptable!

Clearly, the scene in HSB to which you refer was not intended to promote anti-semitism. It served to give a dramatic presentation of the persistence of prejudice. Goldblume's non-response illustrated the circumstances in which he lived and worked, knowing that nothing he said or did would make a difference, that, in fact, any reaction would be seen as foolish and unnecessary.

The audience were supposed to see this and realize the sort of garbage that Goldblume had to deal with. This is a laudable goal, not something for someone thirty years later to come here and express outrage over. Would it be better if we pretended that prejudice didn't exist, that everyone gets along regardless of differences?

I'd suggest you dismount that high horse you're perched on in this instance and save your shock for more relevant, destructive examples of bigotry--for instance, the self-righteous Israeli slaughter of Palestinians.

Henry's faith was reacted to more than once, always, as the good Dr above says, to highlight prejudice, not to foster it. Having watched the whole series, do think writers like these would show their anti-Semitism by having a voice in a crowd say "Jews"?

Everyone in the cast had their ethnicity mocked or abused to a greater or lesser degree - remember "Pizza Man"? Remember the Chief getting Joe Coffee and Officer Perez confused? Remember Howard's constant, friendly (as he saw them) references to Lt Calletano's Hispanic heritage? Or Renko referring to him as "that chubby little caballero" (fat-shaming AND racist!)

The show was refreshingly free of political correctness (a concept unheard of at the time). Howard and Renko were good people - they spoke as people of the time spoke. If you wanted to get precious about every utterance in HSB, you could fill a whole IMDB by yourself.

Report immediately to the "safe area", Frank. Everything will be okay.

You do realize this was made in 1981???? Times before political correctness??? SMH...

I would be interested to know who wrote that episode.

Great for an opening salvo, then we break into

*your theme song* --

"They see me trollin'
and baitin'
They tryin' to catch me writin' dirty!"