EVERY TIME THE FIRST DOCTOR IS OUT OF CHARACTER, TAKE A SHOT!
WARNING: WILL CAUSE ALCOHOL POISONING
EVERY TIME SOMEONE WHITEWASHES THE FIRST DOCTOR’S RACISM AND SEXISM (INCLUDING GEMS LIKE THE LITERAL FIRST DOCTOR QUOTES “RED INDIAN” AND “WHAT YOU NEED IS A JOLLY GOOD SMACKED BOTTOM!’), TAKE A SHOT!
Hey friend you seem to be very angry. Allow me to invite you to take a chill pill. Number one, look up what whitewashing is, because that isn’t it.
Number two, yes the red Indian line is bad, and horrid but literally the first doctor never said anything besides that one line so that one is pretty cringey 60s and not repeated anywhere else.
Number three, the jolly good smacked bottom line is said to his granddaughter, and was improvised by William Hartnell during rehearsal and now written by the writers because he wanted to make the thing lighter, he often did this to make Carole Ann Ford, who if you didn’t know played Susan his granddaughter, laugh and make light of the upsetting situation which was that she was leaving the show.
Maybe before you spout some nonsense you actually watch some of the era beyond the first episode and learn the context of somethings and not repeat things you’ve heard because you’re only going to look ignorant and silly to the ones who actually know what they’re talking about.
Have a nice Christmas and hopefully you can enjoy the episode that people who actually know and enjoy the first doctor can’t
Oooh, a “you’re too emotional” diversion, which is pretty hilarious considering my response satirized your CAPSLOCK RAGE in the first place.
Number one, whether you’re outright lying or simply ignorant of the definitions of whitewashing, you’re wrong. Whitewashing has long been used as a term to describe the act of glossing over something uncomfortable (see: Merriam-Webster), such as the recent spate of complaints downplaying and outright denying incidents of the First Doctor’s sexism and racism.
Number two, speaking of outright denying: literally the First Doctor also says, “Now come along. We must go back to the TARDIS. This is a
madhouse! It’s all full of Arabs!“ in “The Daleks’ Master Plan.” So no, that wasn’t his only example of racism and it wasn’t even limited to just the pilot.Number three, the fact that he said that to his granddaughter doesn’t mitigate it as a gross, sexist line where the Doctor is purposely demeaning her. If Hartnell was the one to actually come up with it (and given your track record with false information, I cannot take your word for it), that only casts him in a bad light in the same way some of Matt Smith’s stupid improvisions do during S7.
The whitewashing and gatekeeping tactics demonstrated above only reaffirm why Moffat is absolutely right to call out those disgusting parts of Doctor Who’s history today.
I did a bit of googling through the usual Doctor Who behind-the-scenes sources, and there’s not a mention of Hartnell improvising that. (I suppose it could be tucked away in a DVD commentary or something.) But, you know… Hartnell saying it to his female co-star isn’t really that much better than the Doctor saying it to Susan. And, the second you know… saying the First Doctor was by our standards racist and sexist isn’t a flat-out You Can’t Like This Thing condemnation. It was the 60s and he was being written by white men, of course he was gonna be. Sometimes you just gotta look back and give a slight wince and try and do better going forward, even if that doing-better is just a simple ‘acknowledge it’.