So humans aren't allowed to have their own culture? A TV show featuring humans? We're supposed to relate to a thousand alien species that require so much explanation there's no time for a story?
To be fair the UT probably translates "humanitarian" as "Vulcanitarian", "Bolianarian", "Andoriatarian" etc, in other alien tongues. Or as "coward protector" or something in Klingon. Languages probably don't arise from outside any alien culture looking in.
It can be argued that it's not racist to use your own culture and language, rather than crowbar terms like "humanoiditarian" or "entitarian" in some vain demonstration of self-deconstruction. And turn around and shout Q'Pla when you see a Klingon. How pandering is that?
The word racist implies a hostile intent, not a mere oversight or bias. Having different population numbers in the same room is not racist. Can't we just be comfortable with a little inexactitude in imperfect verbal communication? Or just call it an idiom and move on; instead of trying to kick up a dirt storm interpreting everything as its worst possible abuse? Don't eat ice cream, you are pro-diabetes!!
For goodness' sake, racism? Have you seen the show? : )
Where does it end - one member of every race in every seat like a Pantone color wheel? Now ALL we can see is our color! This is more racist than oddly-mingled cultures, if you ask me. And not somehow free of bias, but even more hoodwinked by it, because one thinks it's about quotas.
True!
