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* CommonKnowledge: The episode has gained something of a reputation as "the one where Ted takes on PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad", especially among people who only see the "I hear you're a racist now, Father!" scene without knowing its full context. In reality, as per WordOfGod, the scene is meant to serve as a joke as to how people can use religion as an excuse to validate their own prejudices while ignoring what the Church is ''actually'' trying to say. Other than that, the episode doesn't really touch all that much on the topic of political correctness, and more speaks out about gossip and rumour-mongering in general.
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* CommonKnowledge: The episode has gained something of a reputation as "the one where Ted takes on PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad", Political Correctness", especially among people who only see the "I hear you're a racist now, Father!" scene without knowing its full context. In reality, as per WordOfGod, the scene is meant to serve as a joke as to how people can use religion as an excuse to validate their own prejudices while ignoring what the Church is ''actually'' trying to say. Other than that, the episode doesn't really touch all that much on the topic of political correctness, and more speaks out about gossip and rumour-mongering in general.
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* CommonKnowledge: The episode has gained something of a reputation as "the one where Ted takes on PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad", especially among people who only see the "I hear you're a racist now, Father!" scene without knowing its full context. In reality, as per WordOfGod, the scene is meant serve as a joke as to how people can use religion as an excuse to validate their own prejudices while ignoring what the Church is ''actually'' trying to say. Other than that, the episode doesn't really touch all that much on the topic of political correctness, and more speaks out about gossip and rumour-mongering in general.
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* CommonKnowledge: The episode has gained something of a reputation as "the one where Ted takes on PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad", especially among people who only see the "I hear you're a racist now, Father!" scene without knowing its full context. In reality, as per WordOfGod, the scene is meant to serve as a joke as to how people can use religion as an excuse to validate their own prejudices while ignoring what the Church is ''actually'' trying to say. Other than that, the episode doesn't really touch all that much on the topic of political correctness, and more speaks out about gossip and rumour-mongering in general.
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* CommonKnowledge: The episode has gained something of a reputation as "the one where Ted takes on PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad", especially among people who only see the "I hear you're a racist now, Father!" scene without knowing its full context. In reality, as per WordOfGod, the scene is meant serve as a joke as to how people can use religion as an excuse to validate their own prejudices while ignoring what the Church is ''actually'' trying to say. Other than that, the episode doesn't really touch all that much on the topic of political correctness, and more speaks out about gossip and rumour-mongering in general.
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I removed the Ron the Death eater example. This trope typically deals with cases where “fandom's tendency to shoehorn a good canon character into being a villain or make a villain significantly more evil than in canon”. However, the way the current example is structured it doesn’t explain how people are shoehorning this character into being a villain. Instead, it presents the reason why some people consider them to have been in the wrong in the conflict (so not actually an example of their actions being exaggerated), then presents the troper’s views why their actions were understandable. People disagreeing on whether a character’s actions are reasonable doesn’t really fit with this trope definition. If the characters were presented as the bad guys in the episode, it could possibly come under “Designated Villain” or “Informed Wrongness” but since the episode’s focus is just on series of misunderstandings, I’m not sure how this could be rewritten.
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* RonTheDeathEater: Viewers who see Ted as the wronged party in this episode typically accuse the Ying family of being a bunch of humourless jerks who can't poke fun at their own people, along with slandering Ted and falsely accusing him of being a racist. This overlooks the fact that their initial interactions with Ted consisted of him doing a stereotypical impression of a Chinese person right within their eyeline, and then Ted making some obviously lame excuses for doing the impression instead of just apologising (the incident with the perfectly square bit of dirt can't really be blamed on either party, and is just the kind of bizarre misfortune that tends to happen on Craggy Island). It's hard to fault them for not having an entirely positive view of Ted after that.
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* MisaimedFandom: Some viewers see this as a tale of an entirely innocent man being persecuted by the community for doing a poorly-timed but (supposedly) harmless impression of a "Chinaman". To say the very least, this is ''not'' the message that the show's creators wanted viewers to take away.
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I removed the Draco in Leather Pants example. This referred to Ted’s actions argued people were unfairly defending them from being racist. Regardless of one’s opinion of Ted’s actions in this episode (and accepting that this is a YMMV page), the definition of this trope is “When a fandom takes a controversial or downright villainous character and downplays their flaws, often turning them into an object of desire and/or a victim in the process.” So it’s a trope about a character and how the fandom ignores the fact that they’re clearly a bad person because they want to like them. This example focuses on an event and how people disagree over whether the individual event was wrong, without disagreeing about Ted’s character generally. Focusing solely on an event may be relevant to a trope like “Informed Wrongness” but for “Draco in Leather Pants” the example would need to establish why Ted is a controversial or villainous character whose flaws are downplayed, which hasn’t been done in this example.
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* DracoInLeatherPants: Some viewers would have you believe that Ted did absolutely nothing wrong and that the accusations of racism he gets over it are entirely unjustified (or at least a severe over-reaction). For one thing, Ted himself immediately admits to Dougal that his impression of a Chinese person was racist, and for another, he tried to give the Chinese family who witnessed his impression a really lame excuse as to why he was doing it (stretching his eyes to avoid something called "Fat Eyes") instead of just apologising immediately, which is probably what caused the situation to really escalate.
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* MemeticMutation: "I hear you're a racist now, father."
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* MemeticMutation: "I hear you're a racist now, father."Father!"
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* ValuesResonance: The fiasco caused by Ted's "Chinaman" impression is something that strikes a chord with conservatives ''and'' liberals in the modern day. For conservatives, it demonstrates how a person who isn't fundamentally bigoted can have their reputation instantly destroyed by a momentary, ill-timed lapse in judgement (which is what happens to Ted). For liberals, it illustrates why when someone unintentionally offends a member of a minority, one should actually take the time to apologize, instead of making excuses about how what they did wasn't really racist and/or trying to make up for their slight with grand gestures (which, along with a mishap involving a perfectly square piece of dirt on a window, is what causes the situation to escalate to the point where Ted gets his reputation ruined).
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* ValuesResonance: The fiasco caused by Ted's "Chinaman" impression is something that strikes a chord with conservatives ''and'' liberals in the modern day. For conservatives, it demonstrates how a person who isn't fundamentally bigoted can have their reputation instantly destroyed by a momentary, ill-timed lapse in judgement (which is what happens to Ted). Ted), essentially "cancel culture". For liberals, it illustrates why when someone unintentionally offends a member of a minority, one should actually take the time to apologize, instead of [[NeverMyFault making excuses excuses]] about how what they did wasn't really racist and/or trying to make up for their slight with grand gestures (which, along with a mishap involving a perfectly square piece of dirt on a window, is what causes the situation to escalate to the point where Ted gets his reputation ruined).
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* MemeticMutation: "I hear you're a racist now, father."
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* DracoInLeatherPants: Some viewers would have you believe that Ted did absolutely nothing wrong and that the accusations of racism he gets over it are entirely unjustified (or at least a severe over-reaction). For one thing, Ted himself immediately admits to Dougal that his impression of a Chinese person was racist, and for another, he tried to give the Chinese family who witnessed his impression a really lame excuse as to why he was doing it (stretching his eyes to avoid something called "Fat Eyes") instead of just apologising immediately, which is probably what caused the situation to really escalate.
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* ValuesResonance: The fiasco caused by Ted's "Chinaman" impression is something that strikes a chord with conservatives ''and'' liberals in the modern day. For conservatives, it demonstrates how a person who isn't fundamentally bigoted can have their reputation instantly destroyed by a momentary, ill-timed lapse in judgement (which is what happens to Ted). For liberals, it illustrates why when someone unintentionally offends a member of a minority, one should actually take the time to apologize, instead of making excuses about how what they did wasn't really racist and/or trying to make up for their slight with grand gestures (which, along with a mishap involving a perfectly square piece of dirt on a window, is what causes the situation to escalate to the point where Ted gets his reputation ruined).
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* ValuesResonance: The fiasco caused by Ted's "Chinaman" impression is something that strikes a chord with conservatives ''and'' liberals in the modern day. For conservatives, it demonstrates how a person who isn't fundamentally bigoted can have their reputation instantly destroyed by a momentary, ill-timed lapse in judgement (which is what happens to Ted). For liberals, it illustrates why when someone unintentionally offends a member of a minority, one should actually take the time to apologize, instead of making excuses about how what they did wasn't really racist and/or trying to make up for their slight with grand gestures (which, along with a mishap involving a perfectly square piece of dirt on a window, is what causes the situation to escalate to the point where Ted gets his reputation ruined).ruined).
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* MisaimedFandom: Some viewers see this as a tale of an entirely innocent man being persecuted by the community for doing a poorly-timed but (supposedly) harmless impression of a "Chinaman". To say the very least, this is ''not'' the message that the show's creators wanted viewers to take away.
* RonTheDeathEater: Viewers who see Ted as the wronged party in this episode typically accuse the Ying family of being a bunch of humourless jerks who can't poke fun at their own people, along with slandering Ted and falsely accusing him of being a racist. This overlooks the fact that their initial interactions with Ted consisted of him doing a stereotypical impression of a Chinese person right within their eyeline, and then Ted making some obviously lame excuses for doing the impression instead of just apologising (the incident with the perfectly square bit of dirt can't really be blamed on either party, and is just the kind of bizarre misfortune that tends to happen on Craggy Island). It's hard to fault them for not having an entirely positive view of Ted after that.
* RonTheDeathEater: Viewers who see Ted as the wronged party in this episode typically accuse the Ying family of being a bunch of humourless jerks who can't poke fun at their own people, along with slandering Ted and falsely accusing him of being a racist. This overlooks the fact that their initial interactions with Ted consisted of him doing a stereotypical impression of a Chinese person right within their eyeline, and then Ted making some obviously lame excuses for doing the impression instead of just apologising (the incident with the perfectly square bit of dirt can't really be blamed on either party, and is just the kind of bizarre misfortune that tends to happen on Craggy Island). It's hard to fault them for not having an entirely positive view of Ted after that.
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* ValuesResonance: The fiasco caused by Ted's "Chinaman" impression is something that strikes a chord with conservatives ''and'' liberals in the modern day. For conservatives, it demonstrates how a person who isn't fundamentally bigoted can have their reputation instantly destroyed by a momentary, ill-timed lapse in judgement (which is what happens to Ted). For liberals, it illustrates why when someone unintentionally offends a member of a minority, one should actually take the time to apologize, instead of trying to make excuses and/or trying to make up for their slight with grand gestures (which, along with a mishap involving a perfectly square piece of dirt on a window, is what causes the situation to escalate to the point where Ted gets his reputation ruined).
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* ValuesResonance: The fiasco caused by Ted's "Chinaman" impression is something that strikes a chord with conservatives ''and'' liberals in the modern day. For conservatives, it demonstrates how a person who isn't fundamentally bigoted can have their reputation instantly destroyed by a momentary, ill-timed lapse in judgement (which is what happens to Ted). For liberals, it illustrates why when someone unintentionally offends a member of a minority, one should actually take the time to apologize, instead of trying to make making excuses about how what they did wasn't really racist and/or trying to make up for their slight with grand gestures (which, along with a mishap involving a perfectly square piece of dirt on a window, is what causes the situation to escalate to the point where Ted gets his reputation ruined).
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* ValuesResonance: The fiasco caused by Ted's "Chinaman" impression is something that strikes a chord with conservatives ''and'' liberals in the modern day. For conservatives, it demonstrates how a person who isn't fundamentally bigoted can have their reputation instantly destroyed by a momentary, ill-timed lapse in judgement (which is what happens to Ted). For liberals, it illustrates why when someone unintentionally offends a member of a minority, one should actually take the time to apologize, instead of trying to make excuses and/or trying to make up for their slight with grand gestures (which is what causes the situation to escalate to the point where Ted gets his reputation ruined).
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* ValuesResonance: The fiasco caused by Ted's "Chinaman" impression is something that strikes a chord with conservatives ''and'' liberals in the modern day. For conservatives, it demonstrates how a person who isn't fundamentally bigoted can have their reputation instantly destroyed by a momentary, ill-timed lapse in judgement (which is what happens to Ted). For liberals, it illustrates why when someone unintentionally offends a member of a minority, one should actually take the time to apologize, instead of trying to make excuses and/or trying to make up for their slight with grand gestures (which (which, along with a mishap involving a perfectly square piece of dirt on a window, is what causes the situation to escalate to the point where Ted gets his reputation ruined).
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* ValuesResonance: The fiasco caused by Ted's "Chinaman" impression is something that strikes a chord with conservatives ''and'' liberals in the modern day. For conservatives, it demonstrates how a person who isn't fundamentally bigoted can have their reputation instantly destroyed by a momentary, ill-timed lapse in judgement (which is what happens to Ted). For liberals, it illustrates why when someone unintentionally offends a member of a minority, one should actually take the time to apologize, instead of trying to make excuses and/or trying to make up for their slight with grand gestures (which is what causes the situation to escalate to the point where Ted gets his reputation ruined).
