User blog comment:BlueBarracudas555/Discussion: Characters that everyone else hates that you LOVE./@comment-25297892-20150730220446/@comment-1037137-20150801005923

So far I find this argument unconvincing. First off, no, fiction does not excuse it, and it shouldn't. Second, is LeShawna really casting any group in a negative light? She was shown pretty positively and the times where she was not had nothing to do with her race. But smaller kids are impressionable, Mike is clearly just geared towards kids. And the fact that they don't take or show his condition seriously presents all sorts of problems, without even getting into how he's a horridly underdeveloped and overexposed character who came to occupy too much focus at the expense of everybody else regardless of their own popularity.