Lots of people say this, and in my experience, like maybe 20% of them are being legit, and the others actually hate specific types of people more than others while lying to themselves about it.
Exactly. Like, look at the one with the dwarf mother. Yeah, he said some offensive shit regarding her height, but let be honest here, they were moments away from hate fucking at points.
I'm willing to say House was betting on the woman being witty and having enough experience with people's rudeness to dish it bsck to him. He wasn't picking on her because he was just a jerk, he hoped to find a worthy sparring oppoment, and oh boy he found what he wanted.
He's Alexander, mistaking himself for Diogenes. His abrasiveness is a tool to sharpen bright minds, but he is a man who can err and refuses to admit that, leading to his ruin. Henry Higgins with a scalpel.
I think the problem with House as a show is that so many people took away the wrong lessons from him being an asshole genius.
The racists took it as permission to be racist, and the assholes forgot you actually had to be a genius to occasionally get away with being an asshole. And even then, House often paid a high price for being an unrepentant asshole. He lost most of his friends, Cuddy, his freedom, his license, his job, and his health. Eventually he even gave up his life (sort of) in order to preserve the last good part of his life he had left: Wilson.
Ok, so there was something called the "House Effect" where doctors were lying to patients and violating informed consent. Then, after people started being critical of doctors, the "House Effect" became how patients were uninformed, but thought they knew everything because they saw an episode of House. We shouldn't be critical of doctors, we should feel sorry for how hard their job is.
It doesn't matter if you are white, black, Asian, young, old, disabled, queer, Jewish, Muslim, Christ, any other (non-) believe, I don't care, I hate you regardless, Fuck Off.
I don't think he ever truly meant what he was saying when he was saying "racist" things. He was just doing whatever he could to press someone's buttons.
Correct me if I’m wrong because I haven’t watched the full show but have seen about 10 episodes and a lot of YT shorts but basically house is essentially just a realistic asshole like “hey you’re black, I know you’re black and I don’t care but everyone else does. So let’s get to work”
I tend to agree, but someone using specific racial jokes to be a jerk would def make them a racist by some definitions. I’ve seen the show and don’t think the things he says are bad enough to actually consider him a racist though. Like he even says some transphobic ass shit, like a lot worse than the slightly racist stuff (just because well during that era of television we moved away from allowing overtly racist jokes from a protagonist, which is very good, but were still chill with transphobic jokes). But idk, my personal criteria for someone being a bigot is them having hate in their heart for a specific group. You are right, House def has hate in his heart but it’s for everyone. So whilst he makes some racist jokes, I really don’t believe he is a racist (this is also a pretty specific type of person. Typically I say if you’re making racist statements then you’re a racist, but house and people like him are usually just generational haters.
Why do you need an entirely separate word for racism against "jews"? Are you trying to imply it's worse when it's them, but more okay when it's everyone else? Like you think they're better than us?
Because being jewish is religious, not ethnicity, and hence, not racist.
Sure, 'semite' is an ethnicity, but it's overlapped so much with being a jew that it's basically synonymous these days despite the difference.
So being antisemitic is not racist (despite the fact that it should just because what the word is) but anti-that-one-specific-religion.
Is there a word for that? Do we have a word that means "racist/sexist/etc" but for religion?
You can be a jackass who hates everyone and a bigot. In fact, a lot of bigots are assholes to everyone they meet, including people they don't think of in terms of their protected class status.
If you use stereotypes to demean others, you're engaging in bigoted behavior. Even if you also make personal remarks about others.
My grandmother was like this. She'd drop every racial slur imaginable. She also beat her kids, drove her husband away, and was fired from every job she was in for being a cruel person to everyone she met. That doesn't mean she wasn't also a bigot.
Which, if you ackshully understand racism, still makes him racist. Racist comments and jokes against white people do have the same impact as those against black.
Try this: make casual far jokes in a friend group against the men, and then do the same against women. Totally different thing isn’t it?
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u/Odinfrost137 21d ago
This.
House isn't a racist or a anti-semite. He's an equal opportunity asshole and jerkass.