OITNB

The new season is brilliant, as were its earlier ones, but the show's politics are perhaps even more annoying than they were from the beginning.

On the other hand, when the show isn't preaching PC sermons straight from Zinn it pretty much undercuts that same propaganda.

The incontrovertible fact is that the prisoners are depicted as belonging in prison, on the whole.

Every one, of every race.

Including the many who let their sense of social - and not always racial - grievance lead them to repeated foolish self-sabotaging and outright criminal choices.

A lesson that seems to have escaped so many, in particular, is that that others were born with tremendous advantages of wealth and position far beyond your own appears a reason to do less than you reasonably can for yourself - to refuse to "compete in a rigged game" - only to a fool.

That prison is just chock full of such fools.

Too, to hear the black prisoners tell the story you'd think they were the only ones in that place, that there were no white women there, at all, or Asians, or Hispanics.

And nobody white was ever as lowborn as themselves.

Not even the self-destructive, ignorant, and stupid hillbilly girl in the next bunk.