Is Deep Space Nine racist?
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Star Trek was SJWing before anyone knew what a SJW was. Every Star Trek site is a SJW forum.
Perhaps in the old sense where there was an actual basis to raise issues - but not in the modern SJW where everything is deemed "racist".
Hyperbolic much?
Rather an ironic statement
Nope
Yes
I don't think you'll find a whole lot of people here that will agree with you.
Code of Honor is racist because the population of the planet seems to be 100% black, is based on a stereotypical African style, and the leaders act in a ridiculous tribal fashion. And as @Tuskin38 says, the Stargate story by the same writers is nearly identical where there are people who have some important medicine, and they kidnap the female character with short blonde hair, and at the end the heroes lecture them about their primitive ways.
It's based on a stereotypical pantomime of Aladdin style. With a hint of imaginary Japanese, and a confusing Matriarchal Patriarchal set-up. It's a minefield, and there's a discussion elsewhere about it, and a very difficult episode to contextualise, as you have to sit it next to 'Justice' (planet of blonde white primitive people, who Picard gets to lecture, society based on some textbook sociology theories....and like Code Of Honor, everyone talks about or infers the possibility of shagging.) and...that one who's name I forget that was basically yet another show with Hollywood Irish in. Basically, TV then was full of stereotypes for everyone that wasn't from California. Apart from Picard, who was clearly from a little french town in Yorkshire.
Deep Space Nine is probably the least racist of the Trek shows, by a country mile.
I don't recall ever coming across the acronym before, but given context, I'd say it means "social justice warrior." mikey2623 apparently thinks that's a bad thing to be.
Something only GamerGaters talk about.
We've already seen multiple scenes that prove Wakanda is portrayed as a highly advanced country not really that different from most others. And there's a bit of a difference between making a cheesy comedy which is obviously not serious and spends most of its time playing with stereotypes of royal families more than anything african vs making something like code of honor which is deadly serious about itself and presents a central message of how this (stereotypical african) society is unevolved and barbaric.
Oh my god, to live in a world where I didn't know about GamerGate, you have no idea how I envy you.
But to now drag you into this horrible reality with me: GamerGate was this huge harassment campaign of some female gamers, basically because they dared to be girls and play video games. The pretext to justify it was that this would somehow ensure ethics in video game journalism. There was something minimally interesting in trying to follow the justifications of the misogynists conducting the harassment, in that it's completely nonsensical, until you view it through the lens of video game rules and realize they've constructed a plot of a game -- the men behind it aren't just sexist, they also don't know anything about real life and just can't understand why real life would not unfold as a video game does. So then their behavior becomes not only awful and contemptible, but also pathetic and sad.
It's basically a bummer story that reminds you how lousy humans can be.
Wow. Thanks. That is pretty lousy.Oh my god, to live in a world where I didn't know about GamerGate, you have no idea how I envy you.
But to now drag you into this horrible reality with me: GamerGate was this huge harassment campaign of some female gamers, basically because they dared to be girls and play video games. The pretext to justify it was that this would somehow ensure ethics in video game journalism. There was something minimally interesting in trying to follow the justifications of the misogynists conducting the harassment, in that it's completely nonsensical, until you view it through the lens of video game rules and realize they've constructed a plot of a game -- the men behind it aren't just sexist, they also don't know anything about real life and just can't understand why real life would not unfold as a video game does. So then their behavior becomes not only awful and contemptible, but also pathetic and sad.
It's basically a bummer story that reminds you how lousy humans can be.
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