The Traitors is both racist & ageist?

Fiona picking up those goat skulls like she was picking up seashells with the grandkids doesn’t help this perception. That task last night was definitely physically hard.

Not sure about this series but in previous seasons I did have the impression that there was bias in the direction the article implies. Society misrepresents black people as less trustworthy and it manifests in situations like this one too.

Unconscious biases are exactly that: why would you expect the people on this show to be any different to the general population in this respect?

I had wondered this year if the tasks rely on a good deal more physical capability. You had to be really speedy to keep a chair on last night’s challenge. They ran, it seemed, decent distances around the grounds for the fountain one the other week, someone remarking that the statues were very heavy. Some of the best past entrants are older but if they were taking place they would hold a group back/ not be able to compete. I assume they just have minimum physical requirements. But if you weren’t fast and strong last night, you wouldn’t be in contention for a shield.

Spoiler; Jade is non white so without either Faraz or Roxy there will still be two non white folk or am I missing something? However it does often seem to be the people of colour who go earlier, especially the intelligent ones (Faraz has held his light under a bushel until now) and the older ones. We are talking very small numbers so I don’t think you could say anything meaningful about this. There certainly isn’t anything inherently racist about the show. You could argue the other way that 3 out of the final 7 are non white which in comparison to the general population is a high representation.

Yes, I think unconscious bias. It absolutely exists in every day life.

Although I also have a (lighthearted) theory that most faithfuls that remain are fairly boring (in a nice way) and less threatening (not in an aggressive way but due to clever theories etc), so perhaps the other twist could be that white people are just more dull?!

Don’t be so utterly ridiculous.

Don’t be so utterly ridiculous.

I don’t think that’s totally true. The reason Netty and Ross both got banished was nothing to do with their colour, but because of their previous meeting, and how they coped with it. They were easy targets.