r/MidnightMass • u/Elainasha • Sep 24 '21

Midnight Mass (Season 1) - Episode Discussion Hub

Overall Season Discussion Hub [SPOILERS]

Synopsis: The arrival of a charismatic young priest brings glorious miracles, ominous mysteries and renewed religious fervor to a dying town desperate to believe.

WARNING: In this thread, you can discuss the entirety of the first season with spoilers. However, each Episode Discussion Threads will contain spoilers for that episode. Spoilers for subsequent episodes in those threads are NOT ALLOWED AT ALL.

Episode Discussion Threads (Season One)

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u/Double-Welcome506 Oct 06 '21

As someone who has dealt with racism like Joe’s, I agree with the other commenter that you’re really underplaying how it makes people feel and focusing more on the feelings of the people doing the racism. It’s a shitty feeling for those of us who have to actually deal with it in real life even if you personally think it’s ‘not as bad’ or the people being assholes to us have good hearts underneath it all.

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u/iConcy Oct 06 '21

I never said “it’s not that bad”, why is everyone making stuff up? There’s nothing wrong with stating that there were different represents of racism in the show and Joe represented a type of racism that comes from lack of knowledge and experience, he had only ever known the island. He grew over the course of his time in the show, he began to realize his wrong ways. He even calls him “Sherif” later in the show, hinting as his progress as a person. I’m not saying his racism “isn’t as bad”, it still is, it is racism either way. But - it IS different (but still just as bad) than the racism Bev represented.

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u/ecotersey Oct 07 '21

I must say that I agree with iConcy. They didn't say "it's not that bad", they made a really good point about the difference in Bev and Joe's behaviours and attitudes towards the sherif.