As per Jewish World Review, CBS' 2 Broke Girls - especially in one particular episode - implies
- "that no family or tradition or discipline can live up to any ideal or sanctity....
"The implication is that Jews are like everybody else in turning their backs on the family of neighbors, and on family in general....
"why do the writers and producers of this series persist in trying to render sympathetic [the character] Max's cynical and anti-family outlook?....
"the lingering impression is that Orthodox Jewish life is unrealistic given the pull of popular culture....
"[The writer] refuses to make her gratuitously Jewish characters redeemable. They are incapable of achieving self-awareness by virtue of their Orthodox Judaism, which is depicted as entirely without virtue here, as incapable of holding any generation....
"[2 Broke Girls] "dismisses any kind of virtue or even common sense as unrealistic....
"Either virtue is trash or this TV series is" (Move over intact Christian families, TV has decided Orthodox Jews ripe for mockery, Jewish World Review, 2/28/12).
Have our elected officials grown comfortable with such discrimination against marriage and family?
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