Television

I assume I'm blocked, but for anyone who's bothering to read this far --

The FN identity story angle is, quite literally, pulled out of Canadian news cycles and is 100% a pertinent, modern/contemporary story related to FN issues and identity: me referencing it is quite literally me saying in a very explicit fashion that we should've had more FN stories / content in the show, though the other poster seems to consider that racist or boring or something, without bothering to explain their dislike at all. The "Gill" sisters, Indo-Canadians who's parents immigrated over from the UK -- their mother appropriated a FN identity and secured hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants/money from the government based on that identity, getting her two daughters top tier educations and setting them up with an online business selling FN-inspired products. Once the identity fraud was revealed, the mother, who'd committed other frauds earlier even, took full responsibility to save her kids any jail time / punishment, but those daughters still had to drop out of things like law schools that they'd gotten into under false pretenses. The kids have since gone to the news, and lamented their situation, as they're relegated to basically being safeway cashiers or something along those lines.

Putting that sort of real life trauma on a screen, interrogating it, showing the characters on all sides as humans, and finding a way to get a laugh from the audience as you do it -- is the sort of thing good writing ought to be doing. Doing so not only helps people think about the situation critically and engage with the topic in less 'charged' ways (discuss the fictional version with the alien, rather than the real life one with tangible victims, but still talk about the issue!) -- but it'd also help people like the other poster learn about what it's like for FN people in some areas of the world.

And I never said white people should be spared flaws/faults. I just said that to stereotype all the white men, and all men who aren't FN, and pretty well all the white women on the show as negative / deplorable sorts, is racist. To say that "Some white people historically did bad things, so they should all be typecast as dumb incompetent evil people on TV" is racist. It's as blatantly racist as white people used to be towards non white people. Failing to recognize that, and failing to engage with the repercussions of it, is one reason there's increasingly animosity between the different demographics / groups, and there's an increasing rise in White-supremacist groups -- things left in the dark, tend to fester more. People need to be able to talk about those things openly to move forward, and Art is traditionally a primary vehicle for that very thing. That sort of racism, we see play out on line and in this very thread, the show should've actually confronted it head on if they wanted to maintain more character authenticity, and to keep the attention of the audience longer / get people engrossed in the characters. Walter White would've been boring as shit without his dark flaws.

But the writing fell off, made things into 1 dimensional bland virtue signalling snooze fests, and people moved on. It earned its cancellation.

As for the other person 'noping out', it's more realistically that they just realised they were wrong and wanted to try and save some face. I feel like my patience and attempts to explain / get through to the other side is made plain within this thread -- and that nothing I've written is in any way wrong or racist: it isn't racist, to call out racism in other races, just like it isn't fascist, to call out fascists.