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Dear White People

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Dear White People	comment	A Netflix original adaptation of the 2014 film, this online television series follows the same basic plot, with Logan Browning as Sam White and DeRon Horton as Lionel. Giancarlo Esposito provides narration at the beginning of each episode. The series starts with the Blackface party, however, then proceeds from there.
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Dear White People / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Dear White People / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Dereca = Iyanla Vanzant Carson Rhodes = Ta-Nehisi Coates Rikki Carter = Tomi Lahren + Stacey Dash + Candace Owens Silvio = "Latino Andy Cohen" and Milo Yiannopoulos Jerry Skyler = Tyler Perry
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Dear White People / int_12b6fe15	type	Walk and Talk
Dear White People / int_12b6fe15	comment	Walk and Talk: Lampshaded and discussed by Joelle:
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Dear White People / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Dear White People / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: In the film, Troy's father, though a bit of a Control Freak in making sure his son cultivates a respectable image while ignoring what Troy actually wants, was a Reasonable Authority Figure where the students were concerned and sympathetic to Sam's insecurity about her identity. Here, he's a Dean Bitterman who's much more antagonistic to Sam and more concerned about appeasing wealthy donors than listening to the students.
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Dear White People / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Dear White People / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: Taking advantage of the shift from a feature length film to a ten episode series, many of the characters from the original film get increased focus and at least one spotlight episode. Notable examples are Coco, whose backstory growing up in Chicago gets expanded upon, and Reggie, who gets his own character arc, as opposed to the film version who was little more than Sam's Malcolm Xerox boyfriend.
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Dear White People / int_24a045cd	type	Wants a Prize for Basic Decency
Dear White People / int_24a045cd	comment	Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: Reggie and Troy react this way when Kurt tells them solemnly how he now understands that by supporting the system he's upholding racism.
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Dear White People / int_2ab79021	type	Emerging from the Shadows
Dear White People / int_2ab79021	comment	Emerging from the Shadows: In the season 2 finale, this is how the narrator introduces himself to Sam and Lionel, implying that he's actually a member of the Order of X.
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Dear White People / int_2be271c7	type	Hollywood Hacking
Dear White People / int_2be271c7	comment	Hollywood Hacking: Mostly averted when Reggie is asked to hack the season 2 Troll's account, which seems to be hosted on Twitter or a Brand X equivalent. There's some closeup rapid keyboard typing, but he reasonably explains that he's just writing a script to run a dictionary attack, a simple hacking method that's well within the capabilities of an undergrad CS major. However, there is some Artistic License, as this type of attack would probably cause the target account to get locked almost immediately, rather than after the significant amount of time the show portrays.
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Dear White People / int_326a44a1	type	Create Your Own Villain
Dear White People / int_326a44a1	comment	Create Your Own Villain: Gabe accuses Sam of being at least partially responsible for escalating racial tensions on campus, leading to the rise of the alt-right at Winchester.
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Dear White People / int_340575a7	type	Girl on Girl Is Hot
Dear White People / int_340575a7	comment	Girl on Girl Is Hot: Subverted. Troy expects both women to be into him and is disappointed when they only want to hook up with each other.
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Dear White People / int_39ed1c8a	type	Conspiracy Theorist
Dear White People / int_39ed1c8a	comment	Conspiracy Theorist: Quite a few in Season 2: Al, who is convinced the fire at Davis dorm was set to blame black students. Trevor, who Joelle calls a “hotep,” which is explained here. Lionel, who becomes increasingly fixated on Winchester’s secret societies, complete with a stringed bulletin board. The finale reveals that he might be Properly Paranoid.
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Dear White People / int_3ea462d7	type	Take That, Audience!
Dear White People / int_3ea462d7	comment	Take That, Audience!: Quite a few exchanges, particularly Sam's rants on her "Dear White People" radio show, can and are most probably meant to directly address certain audience members of the series as well as those who did not bother watching because of the title:
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Dear White People / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Dear White People / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Season 1. Lionel becomes a hero once again for exposing the Hancocks and standing up to Silvio (which earns him a well-planted kiss after the latter is turned on by the former developing a backbone), and Joelle and Reggie eventually becomes a thing, but Troy is arrested after destroying the town hall door in upset over the revelation that he was indeed a puppet to the Hancocks via his father's perfectionistic upbringing and nearly loses his life while resisting before Dean Fairbanks intervenes. Gabe ends his relationship with Sam, who was willing to make things right, but the latter rekindles her friendship with Coco as they bond over Defamation. Kelsey experiences her first genuine encounter with racism as Sorbet has been dognapped, only being left with a note, "Black girl, white dog, not on my watch", and is met with mass dismissal from the other black students.
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Dear White People / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Dear White People / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: The Show Within a Show that parodies Scandal, Defamation is... pretty awful.
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Dear White People / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Dear White People / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: When Reggie, Joelle, Lionel, and company return from watching a bad movie, they begin ranting about the different ways people of color are typecast and stereotyped in movies while looking directly at the camera.
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Dear White People / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Dear White People / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Season 2, the reveal of @AltIvyW's profile page on Silvio's computer screen. The ending of the season two finale where Giancarlo Esposito, the series' narrator, is the one to appear to Sam and Lionel at the Order of X's secret meeting spot.
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Dear White People / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
Dear White People / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Author Tract: When Reggie, Joelle, Lionel, and their friends rant on Django Unchained and how it portrays black people in stereotypical ways it more or less echoes Justin Simien's own public statements on the film, especially since the camera is angled in such a way so it appears they're talking directly to the viewer.
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Dear White People / int_516f986d	type	Loving a Shadow
Dear White People / int_516f986d	comment	Loving a Shadow: In the penultimate episode of Season 1, Troy calls out Coco on the fact that she doesn't even love him, let alone like him - she just loves the idea of him as a model leader.
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Dear White People / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
Dear White People / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: Episode 4 of Season 1 reveals that Sam and Coco were once friends, since initially rooming together, but had a falling out after racial issues came between them. Later they reconcile somewhat.
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Dear White People / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
Dear White People / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory: Brooke reveals that a teacher raped her in the past, which explains why she's so motivated to support Muffy's allegation against Moses.
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Dear White People / int_54173463	type	Black Republican
Dear White People / int_54173463	comment	Black Republican: Rikki Carter is a rising star pundit in the vein of real-life black conservative pundit Candace Owens. Bonus points for the Casting Gag of her being played by Tessa Thompson, who played the main character Sam (who has the polar opposite political views) in the film. This is then subverted as Rikki reveals to Sam that she doesn't really believe in the cause; she's only in it for the money and notoriety. Silvio, a Latino Gay Conservative who turns out to also be an alt-right troll.
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Dear White People / int_5679208c	type	No Bisexuals
Dear White People / int_5679208c	comment	No Bisexuals: Neika Hobbs is in a long-term relationship with a woman. She's always called a lesbian, though she also has an affair with Troy. The closest anyone gets to acknowledging that she's actually bisexual is Troy saying that she isn't a lesbian with him.
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Dear White People / int_5a365ed2	type	Incompatible Orientation
Dear White People / int_5a365ed2	comment	Incompatible Orientation: Brooke comes onto Lionel, even though she knows he's gay, insisting that's "too reductive". Naturally, her attempt fails.
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Dear White People / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Dear White People / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: Kurt was Sam’s main anatagonist in Season 1, but he is replaced in Season 2 with @AltIvyW. Though his privileged legacy white guy character doesn’t change much, he is genuinely disgusted with the hatefuleness of the Alt Right presence on campus and has developed a much better relationship with the A-P house. He also works with Coco to stack Rikki Carter’s audience with BSU and CORE members. Dean Fairbanks goes from being a Uncle Tom-like Dean Bitterman to being a shoulder for Reggie to lean on, more clearly showing Troy that he truly does have his best interests at heart, and having the campus guard who pulled the gun on Reggie fired.
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Dear White People / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Dear White People / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: Episode 8 of Season 2 is just Sam and Gabe in the radio booth hashing out their broken relationship via a documentary interview.
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Dear White People / int_657f77e4	type	Caught with Your Pants Down
Dear White People / int_657f77e4	comment	Caught with Your Pants Down: In the season 2 premiere, Sam masturbates while fantasizing being with Gabe, only to have Joelle walk in on her.
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Dear White People / int_65fcc287	type	Lima Syndrome
Dear White People / int_65fcc287	comment	Lima Syndrome: Al falls in love with Sorbet, Kelsey's dog, after kidnapping her. Sorbet escapes the first chance she gets.
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Dear White People / int_6a3bedce	type	Modesty Bedsheet
Dear White People / int_6a3bedce	comment	Modesty Bedsheet: Lampshaded by Troy and justified (in a way) by Sam.
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Dear White People / int_6d57a234	type	Lemony Narrator
Dear White People / int_6d57a234	comment	Lemony Narrator: Giancarlo Esposito serves as one, humorously commenting about the events and issues of the story. Until the Season 2 finale where ''he's'' the one to meet Sam and Lionel when they finally track down the Order of X's secret meeting spot.
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Dear White People / int_6d892421	type	Teacher/Student Romance
Dear White People / int_6d892421	comment	Teacher/Student Romance: Troy and Professor Nieka Hobbs.
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Dear White People / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Dear White People / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Tessa Thompson couldn't return to play Sam as she committed to another project. In the second season, however, she returns, playing a commentator with basically the opposite views from Sam's (naturally, they clash).
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Dear White People / int_707ee167	type	Secret Circle of Secrets
Dear White People / int_707ee167	comment	Secret Circle of Secrets: Winchester is apparently rife with secret societies, a common Ivy League trope.
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Dear White People / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
Dear White People / int_7426582d	comment	Token Minority: Ikumi, an Asian-American student, joins the A-P crew in the middle of Season 1. Lampshaded by Ikumi, who introduces herself to the group as their “new catch-all Asian friend.” She gets Chuck Cunningham Syndrome in Season 2, though she does return in the third season, albeit in a more minor role.
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Dear White People / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
Dear White People / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: What sets up the second plot in the climax of Episode 5 of Season 1 - when Reggie eventually quarrels with a white student over N-Word Privileges at a party, campus police show up with an immediate assumption that Reggie was the instigator and demand identification while virulently dismissing Joelle when she comes to his defense. Reggie's quip "Fuck these pigs" provokes one of the officers to draw his gun on him, conjuring a scene that many people of color have either experienced and/or unfortunately not survived to tell the aftermath while the surrounding students are horrified and pleading with the officer to withdraw his firearm. Fortunately, though Reggie shakingly complies with fear for his life and does leave with it, he's understandably broken by the confrontation.
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Dear White People / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Dear White People / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: For Season 2- “Watch closely."
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Dear White People / int_7815ba15	type	N-Word Privileges
Dear White People / int_7815ba15	comment	N-Word Privileges: This is the cause of Reggie's fight with a white student, the latter having said the word in repeating the lyrics of a rap song. Sam later also tells Gabe she'll say it, but he can't, though light-heartedly. Several gay characters are using the f-word and tell Lionel and Troy that this is their n-word.
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Dear White People / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Dear White People / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Kurt asks Sam in the Season 1 finale how much has she really improved things at Winchester. Already exhausted by her breakup with Gabe and estrangement from Reggie, Sam experiences a minor Heroic BSoD.
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Dear White People / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Dear White People / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The first episode opens with the Blackface party and then shows how it came to this point.
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Dear White People / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
Dear White People / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: Kurt in the film was a Jerkass who frequently expressed racist and homophobic statements with pride. In the series version, while still a huge dick and the originator behind the blackface party, his overt racism and and homophobia is absent and is at least temporarily horrified by the campus police pulling a gun on Reggie at the party. He also tries to reach out to Sam to work together on a statement against the incident and in the Season 1 finale, delivers an Armor-Piercing Question to her about the effectiveness of her outrage-driven tactics. In Season 2, he's come around to understanding what the black students have gone through.
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Dear White People / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Dear White People / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Lionel is devastated when he learns Silvio is @AltIvyW and even tells him, “You were my mentor.” Sam is deeply disappointed when she meets with Cynthia Fray, her idol, who is rude and dismissive. Reggie is devastated when Moses admits he did have sex with Muffy (though claiming it was consensual). Iesha Vital is dillusioned by Sam (having been inspired by her prior to coming to Winchester) because she doesn't consider her militant enough and believes she's "compromised" because of her relationship with a white man.
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Dear White People / int_8cb01d0e	type	Category Traitor
Dear White People / int_8cb01d0e	comment	Dean Fairbanks goes from being a Uncle Tom-like Dean Bitterman to being a shoulder for Reggie to lean on, more clearly showing Troy that he truly does have his best interests at heart, and having the campus guard who pulled the gun on Reggie fired.
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Dear White People / int_8d630561	type	Simultaneous Arcs
Dear White People / int_8d630561	comment	Simultaneous Arcs: This is sometimes done to support the Rotating Protagonist system, often using a noteworthy event or conversation from a previous episode to establish that the next one happens approximately at the same time. Sometimes the arcs are mostly separate, and other times the follow-up may show the direct conclusion of a conversation that was only partly witnessed by the previous episode's point of view. However, by the end of each season the episodes tend to become more linear. The episodes in about the first half of the first season each show the immediate aftermath of the blackface party from different characters' perspectives. In season 2, Sam notices @AltIvyW's post immediately after a confrontation in A-P house, suggesting he's someone in the room. The next episode, from Lionel's perspective, ends with him noticing the same thing, but this time he's in a position to see exactly who it is.
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Dear White People / int_8e054b09	type	College Radio
Dear White People / int_8e054b09	comment	College Radio: Sam's show.
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Dear White People / int_9186eded	type	Helicopter Parents
Dear White People / int_9186eded	comment	Helicopter Parents: The motive behind Dean Fairbanks' strict parenting - to mold Troy into a model individual so that he won't face the same struggles his father did as a black man.
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Dear White People / int_9a6b3140	type	Delayed Narrator Introduction
Dear White People / int_9a6b3140	comment	The ending of the season two finale where Giancarlo Esposito, the series' narrator, is the one to appear to Sam and Lionel at the Order of X's secret meeting spot.
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Dear White People / int_9d6f3607	type	Fag Hag
Dear White People / int_9d6f3607	comment	Fag Hag: The woman in the couple who Lionel goes home with realizes she's this as her partner is really gay. She clearly makes her peace with it, because she's still with him near the end of the season.
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Dear White People / int_a3509d95	type	The Password Is Always "Swordfish"
Dear White People / int_a3509d95	comment	The Password Is Always "Swordfish": Sam is able to break easily into Pastiche's Facebook page because their password is pastiche. Subverted in season two with Reggie trying to hack @AltIvyW's Twitter account, requiring him to create a complex dictionary attack program that takes hours to work, then ultimately fails due to the account being protected by two-factor verification.
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Dear White People / int_ae853f28	type	Parody
Dear White People / int_ae853f28	comment	Parody: The A-P students’ favorite shows are Defamation, a parody of Scandal, and Prince O’Palities, a parody of Empire. Not to mention the episode centered on Gabe where all his fantasy sequences are parodies of films like Do the Right Thing, Persona (1966), and Blaxploitation flicks. The third season has one of The Handmaid's Tale (with the Handmaids in blue rather than red), which also serves to criticize some aspects, and one of Queer Eye (2018), with the guys going to plainly racist and homophobic places (one finding sets of Klan robes) and trying to dance around the issue.
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Dear White People / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Dear White People / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: With racial tensions at an all-time high in the second season and now people acting openly racist on campus, Kurt actually sees himself mellowing out since he doesn't find any humor in Sam getting doxed and threatened. He also starts to somewhat understand racism and what the black students have gone through because of this.
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Dear White People / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Dear White People / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Chapter I of Season 3 features a mild one toward The Handmaid's Tale, noting how what July (the expy for June) complains of is something many black women already had to bear. Not to mention the fact that the lead actress is part of a real cult, but doesn't notice the irony. In spite of this, Sam says that she's addicted and has watched the show religiously. Wesley suggests "taking a page from the Fallout 4 handbook", to which Lionel sarcastically asks if that means "killing mutants and losing the RPG elements of the previous games."
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Dear White People / int_b532f68b	type	Everybody Has Lots of Sex
Dear White People / int_b532f68b	comment	Everybody Has Lots of Sex: There is rarely an episode where someone isn’t having sex. Especially Troy.
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Dear White People / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Dear White People / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: When Al complains about how Apple uses child slave labor in China to manufacture its phones, his phone starts going off. Guess what phone it is?
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Dear White People / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Dear White People / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Gabe is falling madly in love with Sam, but the latter later becomes close to Reggie who's been attracted to Sam from the moment he laid on eyes on her. Complicating it further is that Reggie himself is the object of an unrequited attraction from Joelle. It turns almost into a Love Dodecahedron when you add in that Sam dated Troy before the start of the series and Coco dates him briefly in season 1 while he's also having an affair with a professor.
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Dear White People / int_bcb4f1f1	type	You Just Told Me
Dear White People / int_bcb4f1f1	comment	You Just Told Me: How Coco learned about Troy's affair with Neika.
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Dear White People / int_bf110089	comment	Break Them by Talking: Sam comes ready with a speech to tell off Rikki Carter, but Rikki completely disarms her by telling Sam that her radio “character” is great and her morals only matter as an attention-grabbing and moneymaking device. Sam is left speechless and says afterwards that she may be done with “Dear White People.”
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Dear White People / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Dear White People / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Tessa Thompson, who played Sam in the film, here plays Rikki Carter, a black conservative commentator with basically the opposite politics (quite likely intentional).
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Dear White People / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Dear White People / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Coco attempts to join the black sorority Alpha Delta Rho, which is the same sorority that Whitley joined in A Different World.
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Dear White People / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
Dear White People / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: In the first episode, the narrator says the writers need him to set up the plot because they're too lazy to do it the regular way. Chapter I of the third season has some humorous comments about the problems with Netflix shows in their third season, which they are in.
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Dear White People / int_c9c317cd	type	Last-Minute Hookup
Dear White People / int_c9c317cd	comment	Last-Minute Hookup: In the Season 2 finale, Sam and Gabe reunite, Joelle and Reggie finally get together, and Lionel and Wesley have sex for the first time.
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Dear White People / int_cda501da	type	Killed Off for Real
Dear White People / int_cda501da	comment	Killed Off for Real: Thane dies when attempting to "fly" out of a window while intoxicated near the end of Episode 3, Season 1.
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Dear White People / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
Dear White People / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: Episode 5 of Season 1 is when the show takes a darker yet realistic turn where Reggie is held at gunpoint by campus police after a fight at a party, where he's considered the instigator and for nothing more than talking back to the officer.
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Dear White People / int_d959d421	comment	Rotating Protagonist: Each episode is done largely from the POV of one particular character.
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Dear White People / int_e251fae2	comment	But Not Too Black: Narrator (Giancarlo Esposito) states that he was selected for the role due to his being ethnic enough while still being nonthreatening. Coco also complains of being thought poorly about by many black guys due to having dark skin, and claims Sam has "light skinned privilege" because she's mixed race. Sam retorts that no one calls Coco "half breed" or "Zebra". Joelle also deals with being seen as the Romantic Runner-Up in her Love Triangle with Sam and Reggie, because of being darker-skinned than her.
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Dear White People / int_e378370c	type	But Not Too White
Dear White People / int_e378370c	comment	But Not Too White: A lot of black people dislike Sam because she is mixed race, judging by her comments about being called things like "half breed" or "Zebra". She possibly overcompensates in reaction by being militant about issues which affect black people.
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Dear White People / int_e4d079c1	comment	Greek Chorus: Rashid, an African exchange student, often comments on the peculiarities of American culture and most poignantly its dual obsession with and terror of addressing race.
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Dear White People / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Dear White People / int_e796ce97	comment	Blackface: Just as in the film, a party where white students dress up as black people occurs, and sparks the plot.
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Dear White People / int_e8dcd1c0	type	Four Lines, All Waiting
Dear White People / int_e8dcd1c0	comment	Four Lines, All Waiting: The first 5 or so episodes concern the blackface party and the different reactions of the various characters, but eventually the show moves on to other topics while retaining each episode's focus on one character.
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Dear White People / int_ec212e4d	type	Ensemble Cast
Dear White People / int_ec212e4d	comment	Ensemble Cast: While Sam is definitely the face of the series, each of the main characters have episodes devoted specifically to them, and even the side characters have significant Character Development.
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Dear White People / int_ef81dc82	type	Fantasy Sequence
Dear White People / int_ef81dc82	comment	Not to mention the episode centered on Gabe where all his fantasy sequences are parodies of films like Do the Right Thing, Persona (1966), and Blaxploitation flicks.
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Dear White People / int_f05444a4	comment	Once per Episode: Each episode ends with the character who had A Day in the Limelight looking directly into the camera.
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Dear White People / int_f88600be	comment	Higher Understanding Through Drugs: Kurt gives Troy some powerful shrooms to help Troy gain a better sense of his true comic identity. Troy approaches many of his former friends and loves to ask them what they saw in him and is ultimately confronted by Sorbet, Kelsey’s dog, who further confirms that Troy has been phony, self-serving, and scared in all his relationships. He ends with a naked Symbolic Baptism in the campus fountain he peed in when he was a drunk freshman.
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Dear White People / int_fa712e27	type	Gay Conservative
Dear White People / int_fa712e27	comment	Gay Conservative: Silvio morphs into one, or really even further to the right, in Season 2.
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Dear White People / int_faa71569	type	Romantic False Lead
Dear White People / int_faa71569	comment	Romantic False Lead: Trevor is this for Joelle, who is really into Reggie.
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Dear White People / int_fab3b838	type	Everything Is Racist
Dear White People / int_fab3b838	comment	Everything Is Racist: A central debate of the show. Sam is very extreme in her opinions about institutional racism, which even other Black characters sometimes feel is going too far.
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Dear White People / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Dear White People / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Clifton is constantly heating up Hot Pockets. In the Season 2 finale, it’s revealed that Clifton caused the fire of Davis dorm when microwaving a Hot Pocket.
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Dear White People / int_fed441ad	type	All Gays are Promiscuous
Dear White People / int_fed441ad	comment	All Gays are Promiscuous: From the party Lionel and Troy attend, this seems to be the case at Winchester except for Lionel. Wesley also seems to be an exception until the Season 2 finale, when he says he’s against monogamy.
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