I'm a white male. I've never seen any white male bashing on DSC. WTH is wrong with people?
Hard same. A friend of mine in social work once told me (I promise this made sense in context) that people from, say, societies far removed from western influence rarely hallucinate Elvis when they check out for lunch.
In other words the terms in which we conceive of the world and project ourselves into it are as much products of existing cultural narratives as they are our internal ones.
There are prevailing power structures which are being confronted by a multitude of people in a multitude of ways in a multitude of settings. There's no denying that. Not all of these challenges are equivalent, certainly not all are good or useful or even necessarily benevolent of course. But many are all these things.
And of course there's the predictable, incorrigible reaction to change, which is where the scared white men come in. Narratives have formed which pit <insert dominant ruling class identity> against <anything else> in a very nationalist, xenophobic light.
I'm painting with a broad brush here but I find significant
anecdotal overlap between those who think women are ruining video games, those who think immigrants are ruining society and hurting people, those who have irrational fears they'll be imprisoned for using the wrong gender, etc.
The common thread is feeling entitled to hold the sociopolitical and cultural reins, and only being able to conceive of this tension in reactionary, tribal, and violent terms because they aren't used to not getting what they want (
in some important respects). If you've never had to compromise, the prospect might indeed seem terrifying.
Part of the solution though is characters like Pike portrayed by guys like Anson Mount. He's an exemplary white guy.
. And the same is for Star Trek.
