I cannot believe it, here we go again, while there has been none, zero person of color been the murderer over the entire season, probably because, like the writers let Joe say, people of color have been wrongfully accused and put in prison - well that does not justify making all of them saints either, and while, sadly,innocent people of color have been wrongfullly sentenced, there are also innocent white people who have been wrongfullly sentenced. That is no argument to eliminate the regularly requested diversity on one end of the spectre (making people of color and white people part of the good guys, but only white people the bad guys, this is racism, a lack of diversity and discriminating, I would even say propaganda because racist people have done nothing else in the past but onesidedly portray one group as evil and one group as saints, just shifting the groups doesn't change that it is wrong/racial discrimination), and it doesn't help people of color either, since they are solely portrayed as toothless victims - not flattering at all, and not true. Talking about statistics, if you want to stay true to the truth (and there is nothing more important than the truth), if you want to not burden one group any further who has had to suffer from injustice over the past AND who are less often present in murder statistics: you should give women a break. Because funnily, while there is not one person of color who turns out to be the killer, in many, many episodes, a woman is the killer (which real life statistics do not back up at all), and not only that, if there is a blond woman: she is the killer for sure, like in the episode at hand. This is what I call discriminating, a call to hate blond women. You may think you are helping many people (of color) with this lopsided racism, but you do not see that you are insulting, villainizing, infamizing, demonizing and bashing (blond) women - what is your problem with about half of Sweden, Norway, Finland, great parts of the population in Russia, Switzerland, also Germany, France, Austria, Britain, Australia and so on? They have done nothing wrong, but you are hurting and jeopardizing them (jealousy-driven hate has taken its toll on many blond women, this is injustice that you just ignore). And women in general (in all colors and shapes) have suffered from so much hate and discrimination, that - if you (justifiedly) cry for sensitivity for other groups - you should also cry for sensitivity for (all) women and act accordingly. This is just unacceptable, and for a crime show it is the death kiss, since all the suspense is gone. I started watching this episode and as soon as I saw the blond woman (and a person was poisoned) I did not want to or need to watch the whole episode anymore. I just skipped to the end (just because I coud not believe they did it again) and - surprise - the blonde woman was the evil killer, again. When you are watching this show, you don't have to guess, all people of color can be excluded/will never be portrayed as the perpetrators, never (and the writers showed one woman lied to by her fiance, and the woman was deeply hurt that he did not think she could take it/that she was too delicate - portraying one group solely as the helpless victims means denying them power and declaring them too weak to be able to take realistic portrayals - not good/okay at all, for noone), and if a blond woman is shown, you can be pretty, pretty sure that she ends up being the killer. Doesn't work for me on so many levels. A shame, because I liked the entire team, but that's it, I do not support racism and hate of any kind, and there's no fun it anymore, either. A good show ruined completely, again, by hobnailed political propaganda, a shame. RIP. I am all for equality, equal treatment of everybody, always have been, and I was glad that things get moving, but overdoing it massively is just tipping the scales in the other wrong direction - no balance and peace can or will come out of this either.
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