Pop Culture Ethical Assessment

Pop Culture Ethical Assessment
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Pop Culture Ethical Assessment
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah is a famous satirical series in which he discusses political and social matters related to American society humorously and lightly. In one of the episodes titled "Black Mental Health-If You Don't' Know, Now You Know," the host, Trevor Noah, portrays himself as a mental health professional and discusses the problems associated with mental, psychological problems of the people of the black community. This show went on air on December 17, 2019. After viewing this particular show, one can easily estimate that Trevor has not acted ethically by acting as a psychologist. In trying to be humorous and entertaining, he inadvertently highlights and instigates racism, ridicules religion, and even makes fun of Jesus. The following paragraphs will further elaborate on this view.
In the first place, he deliberately projects black people as the community badly in need of psychotherapy by mentioning the turmoil their ancestors have faced (Noah, 2019). In doing this, he projects a bleak picture of the black community and overlooks the fact that black people are not as backward as he intends to portray in modern American society. Furthermore, quoting from an unknown study that shows only a low fraction of minorities visit or get psychological help, he exaggerates the facts by using statistics for overall minorities to state the dilemma of the black community (Noah, 2019). One of the devastating effects that this negative and exaggerated portrayal of an already sensitive group is that it further deepens the sense of deprivation in the black community.
The most unacceptable thing of this portrayal is how Trevor shows discriminatory behavior conducted with black students at school. Media and social ethics demand that such issues, even if they really exist, should not be discussed publicly since such a stark and exaggerated portrayal of the social dilemma of a community most likely generates resentment towards society and encourages anti-social behavior. Talking about mix-diagnosis, he further attempts to accentuate the class difference between the black community and white people by making a baseless statement regarding different interpretations of a psychotic episode for white and black people (Noah, 2019). This attitude and mode of discussion is highly unethical since it reflects bias and hatred on the part of the host and violates the rules of a healthy and neutral discussion.
Besides all these distortions of facts and...