Quote Originally Posted by ccfc_is_my_life View Post
I sense the point has flown over your head.

Alf Garnett was shown to be shitty human being, little to no redeeming virtues. He was nowhere close to being a sympathetic character, he was there to be shown as a vile misogynistic racist... anybody championing his racism no doubt already shares those characteristics.
I don't believe the point has flown over his head at all.
You should get off your high horse and accept that people, not as intelligent as you, at the time may have looked up to this man and took his words as read.
I was around at the time and people in school loved Alf Garnet and looked upon his character as funny.
People would even mimmick his words.

Thing is, I do not believe these people, in junior school, were racist but airing this type of sitcom would have certainly influenced their behaviour, especially if their parents were laughing at his antics. Many would not have understood what they were actually laughing at.

Anyway back to the OP, I am of the opinion that this character, along with Eddie Booth, were a million miles away from Basil Fawlty.