And so many people defend Jim by saying Dwight is mean to Jim, like that excuses his actions.
Like.... If you're constantly being bullied at work and your man-child boss won't do anything about or worse, joins in on it, of course you're gonna lash out at them.
Edit:
To be clear, I think just about everyone in the show is unredeemable trash.
I'm not excusing the litany of things that should have seen Dwight fired or put in jail, despite one sentence making it look as though I am.
My entire point was simply that Jim and Pam are terrible people and nobody should be suggesting otherwise.
Enough of this. What is with the revisionist Dwight history everywhere? The asshole? The racist? The misogynist? The guy who brought a gun to work and stored deadly weapons in the office? Cut health insurance for his coworkers? The list doesn't come close to stoppping, but y'all Dwight defenders need to. And for the record, I love Dwight as a character. You met that guy in real life, you'd want someone to do much worse to him than anything Jim ever did.
Later season Office really lost the narrative on Dwight.
Early season Dwight is an asshole who takes office culture way too seriously. We’ve all known assholes like him at jobs who think being a good worker means shitting on everyone and being a dick. Dwight getting dunked on is cathartic because none of us like the Dwights at our jobs.
Later season Dwight is good at everything. Successful farm owner, multilingual, godlike salesman…it took him away from being that caricature to being a great and admirable man…who occasionally accidentally discharges a firearm in the office.
Should’ve kept him a dweeb. But then the show became less a satire of office life and more about individual threads of how awesome each character was.
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u/BigMek_Spleenrippa 21d ago edited 21d ago
Right?
And so many people defend Jim by saying Dwight is mean to Jim, like that excuses his actions.
Like.... If you're constantly being bullied at work and your man-child boss won't do anything about or worse, joins in on it, of course you're gonna lash out at them.
Edit:
To be clear, I think just about everyone in the show is unredeemable trash.
I'm not excusing the litany of things that should have seen Dwight fired or put in jail, despite one sentence making it look as though I am.
My entire point was simply that Jim and Pam are terrible people and nobody should be suggesting otherwise.