Oh, you mean making sure propaganda reshapes the film and TV productions?
DC Cinematic Universe ( The James Gunn era)
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Oh, you mean making sure propaganda reshapes the film and TV productions?
Exactly. No more woke Star Trek!
When does that start? 1966? Star Trek was always woke or whatever word Conservatives are currently afraid of.
That's years beyond the era that MAGA wants to return to. Both Charlie Kirk and Stephen Miller hate/d the civil rights movement.
Yep, it's conservatives who are the ones afraid of scary words!
^I'm glad you agree.
Some people overlook, probably forgot one or maybe are too ignorant to see one of the underlying message of Star Trek being all ethnicities eventually resolve their differences and work together
They had black and asian cast members on the team. They had Americans working with the Japanese and Russians
They had black and asian cast members on the team. They had Americans working with the Japanese and Russians
Twenty years earlier we placed Japanese-Americans in internment camps and dropped an atom bomb on Japan. They also treated American POW's terribly and sucker punched a US Naval Base. So, I imagine there was still some raw feelings there.
In the 80s, there were a lot of people in my grandparents generation and a little younger who bore a lot of resentment toward the Japanese. They wouldn't buy Japanese products, for example.
I should add, that meanwhile, my generation was supporting addressing reparations for families who were interred during the war.
To be fair Sulu didn't become Japanese until later. I think he was described as Pan-Asian."
Yes -- Sulu is the name of a sea in the Philippines, which Gene Roddenberry wrongly believed to border on multiple Asian countries (it's actually just two) and thus represent Asia as a whole. It certainly isn't an actual Japanese surname. The only thing in TOS that specifically suggests a connection between Sulu and Japan was the bit in "Shore Leave" where his imagination conjured up a samurai -- though it was hard to see why a Japanese person would be as terrified of a samurai as Sulu was, which would be the equivalent of an Englishman being terrified of an Elizabethan knight or nobleman. (Then again, McCoy was "killed" by a knight in armor, so...)
But later writers of tie-ins and canon assumed that Sulu had the same nationality as George Takei, so novels and comics always treated him as Japanese, and eventually Vonda McIntyre's coinage of Hikaru as his given name was canonized. Things might have been very different if James Hong had gotten the role instead.
Probably because he lives in the 23rd century and likely has never been exposed to a real samurai.
How old are you?
That's not being snide. I'm wondering if you have any personal memory of how weird and touchy Americans still were about Japan twenty years after the end of the war. They were both sort of okay, and still not okay. Often caricatured, albeit less blatantly than during wartime. Treated as the butt of jokes, derided for the supposedly low quality of their exports. Many Americans wouldn't buy Japanese products Because.
All of that was acceptable and taken sufficiently for granted that Jerry Della Femina could write a humorous bestselling memoir about the advertising business titled From Those Wonderful Folks Who Brought You Pearl Harbor with confidence that Americans would not be offended and would get the joke. There are several anecdotes in it about trying to market here for Japanese companies.
He knows what he did.
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