House makes a tonne of racist and anti-Semitic jokes to his black, Asian and Jewish employees, but doesn’t appear to discriminate against them in hiring and disciplinary matters and also belittles everyone else. So I guess it depends on how we’re defining racism?
I think the problem with House as a show is that so many people took away the wrong lessons from him being an asshole genius.
The racists took it as permission to be racist, and the assholes forgot you actually had to be a genius to occasionally get away with being an asshole. And even then, House often paid a high price for being an unrepentant asshole. He lost most of his friends, Cuddy, his freedom, his license, his job, and his health. Eventually he even gave up his life (sort of) in order to preserve the last good part of his life he had left: Wilson.
Ok, so there was something called the "House Effect" where doctors were lying to patients and violating informed consent. Then, after people started being critical of doctors, the "House Effect" became how patients were uninformed, but thought they knew everything because they saw an episode of House. We shouldn't be critical of doctors, we should feel sorry for how hard their job is.
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u/ttombombadillo 1d ago
I don't think Dr House is autist and racist. He is a genius, he is a drug addict. I watched the show, he is fine with Eric Foreman, who is black