Totally. We're all "persons of colour". Or as I prefer to say, "we're all people". Period.
Humanity can never move forward until we learn to stop using labels like that to describe other humans.
Captain Pike's weird comment about "women on the bridge"
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Totally. We're all "persons of colour". Or as I prefer to say, "we're all people". Period.
Humanity can never move forward until we learn to stop using labels like that to describe other humans.
The line in the pilot was a throwaway, written for the audience of that time. That's all, nothing more. It was not offensive to many, if any, back then. It should not be interpreted as being an intentional slight toward women.
In my opinion, people have become unnecessarily thin-skinned and let themselves be injured by what others say. Words won't kill you. Never have, never will. People with sticks and stones (and knives and guns) can.
I'm going to my safe space now.
Like the doctor says: "Sticks and stones won't break my bones, so you can imagine how I feel about being called names."
it was set all over the future when TOS was being made. They were deliberately vague. But at any rate it had one foot firmly planted in the 20th Century.
WW2 was started by a little Austrian man who was too good with words.....millions died due to his beliefs. Pity he did not keep his mouth close and stick to painting.
It was either that or becoming a champion in crossword puzzle solving.
And by bringing that guy into the discussion, according to some folks on the web, you automatically disqualify your argument (or lock up the whole internet--I'm not sure which).
I'm not one of those people, but hey. Somebody was going to say it.
"If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the cavepeople, maybe there is. I don't know."
And by bringing that guy into the discussion, according to some folks on the web, you automatically disqualify your argument (or lock up the whole internet--I'm not sure which).
I'm not one of those people, but hey. Somebody was going to say it.
That's not what I heard. I heard that there is a principle that says that in any lengthy discussion the name of that guy is gonna come up sooner or later.
Maybe I just rewrote history and you were the first to notice.
Then folks need to qualify their 'negative words are harmless' rherotic with the disclaimer 'words are harmless unless used by politicians, fanatical dictators, corrupt religious leaders, racists, psychopaths, racists and or sexists humans'. Which pretty much includes a lot of human real life history. Or they can go to work tomorrow and swear at their boss and take their own little test.And by bringing that guy into the discussion, according to some folks on the web, you automatically disqualify your argument (or lock up the whole internet--I'm not sure which).
I'm not one of those people, but hey. Somebody was going to say it.
Trump's incitement to murder.
Harmless right?????
Maybe I just rewrote history and you were the first to notice.
Or maybe you're right and I am mistaken.
He's not.
Or maybe, just maybe, people can recognize a little tongue in cheek when they see it.
Another throwaway line, from a guy who speaks off the cuff. I'm not a supporter, but it's not like he's calling for people killing cops. That's enough of that kind of rhetoric, thanks.
I've always believed a person was referred to as "Scots," not "Scotch" or "Scottish."
Except for albinos.
Just as all stories that take place in the future are products of their own time. The crew of Forbidden Planet's C-57D was written and played as the U.S. Army or Navy of the 1950s in space.
"Scottish" and "Scots" are both correct to describe a nationality. Scotch is a whiskey (or whisky).
And I think a Yorkshireman, with a Scottish name, like Patrick Stewart would know the difference.
Probably but I am not the only one who heard it that way.
It was once English convention to refer to people from Scotland as "Scotch" (I have half a dozen books on my shelves by English historians spanning 1850 to 1960 who use it and I'm sure they weren't alone). However, as I recall (and I could be off by a decade or so), by the mid sixties "Scotch" was being displaced by "Scots" or "Scottish" (depending upon noun or adjective--"Scotch" served as both). As far as I can tell from the preface of one of those books, "Scotch" was not used by Scots themselves, though it has been a while since I've read the book.
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