????? 2003 is half a generation ago. Opinions should be changing.
And your point is the same as the one I was making. The intense need to apologise for existing, the purity spirals of today do not undo the need for the whole bloody journey to have existed. Today's angst is born out of stuff like Little Britain.
The 00s were a weird era of post 90s excess, right wing agitation and global green awareness.
Every era has its own characteristics and, especially if it is your own defining era, it can be odd looking back at it and see it from the outside.
The 90s and 00s were, to me, times of the individual, greed, acquisition and being loud, lairy. Little Britain deliberately, and in hindsight less deliberately, reflected the worst if that time. I didn't like it because it was, to me, just a long list of offensiveness. But to many younger friends and colleagues it was hilarious.
I will say here I hated Vic and Bob too. My sense of humour was always out of whack (loved Dave Allen )
LB was very much a show once and forget kind of show. It only existed because those characters did exist but we're at odds with how society of the time wanted to view itself. Nothing you can say about it's offensiveness will be wrong, it was intended to be offensive, multi layered, all encompassing and nasty.
As for the picture you are so hung up on... racist, misogynist, whatever... see in it what you want to see. It will be there. It was intended to be.