You're missing nuances about after it spread, and it was more about developers and games journalists than Girl gamers...but that more or less sums up the unpleasant kernel, before it snowballed and nastiness grew all around. Just more polarised political horridness. I sometimes wonder if bits of this current world are just that bored they turn to hatred for entertainment. And every last one a 'keyboard warrior'. Lê sigh.
I think I'll leave this website to be honest. I thought it was a website for Star Trek fans but after reading through some of these threads its for little pansies.
Code of honor was bout as racist as Justice IMO both episodes were based on some kind of stereotypes. When it came to stereotypes Star Trek dishes it out to all and sundry. Code was about as African as Justice is Scandinavian. I was not offended by either, if some viewers were offended speak for yourself and let go of your 'I represent all black thinking' card... Thanks
Social Equality, Social Responsibility, Society, Social Caring, yes. Social Justice sounds unpleasantly close to a Lynch Mob for my tastes. not a label I care to spin into a positive. SJW is an insult. *shrug*
Most of the time i see the term SJW used it is in reference to extremists. People who take it to a point that they basically become those who they're fighting against. I mean people to absolutely refuse to change their mind, or cover their ears, won't listen to anything.
Norman - from Norsemen. Vikings settled in France (Normandy), invaded England. Became the French speaking gentry.
Most of the time I see the term hurled at perfectly normal people who dared object to some bigoted shit. Usually by somebody who's upset he can't say casually racist or sexist things anymore without being called out. I've rarely (if ever) seen it used in reference to actual "extremists". It's usually just a lame debating tactic.
Comments like this are a sure path to leaving whether you want to or not. This kind of behaviour will not be tolerated. Infraction for trolling. Comments to PM.
I'm sorry (notSorry) I missed most of the pages (especially how far off topic the last few seem) I would say Deep SPace 9 is the LEAST racist of all Treks, mainly because they had the time to FLESH out several alien cultures, and we got to see characters of the same culture with (sometimes) wildly differing views of how one in their culture should act. And certainly with humans...the Sisko family in particular was excellent....
I never thought DS9 was racist at all, nor any of the other shows for that matter. Humans certainly aren't racist to each other, and aliens are aliens.
I always thought the aliens in Trek were written as metaphors, the aliens represent facets or universal qualities that we all carry as humans (good or bad), so Trek at it's core was always about working with some of those facets of ourselves and working to overcome other facets....it least thats my thought as to why the main alien races seem so one demensional and not nearly as diverse as humans are portrayed.
Some of the characters certainly are (well, specisist) but I don't think the show endorses their beliefs. Kira, a resistance fighter, learns that it isn't enough that someone is Cardassian, she got to a place she was able to hate someone for what they did, not who they were, even though she and her people suffered at the hands of a specific group for 50 years. Odo, though he flirts with the Great Link, also never really embraces the Founders' belief that all solids are to be avoided and feared (at worst) and controlled (at best). Sisko's love interest (forget her name at the moment) also reminds him that Vic's racially-integrated 1952 Vegas lounge was not an accurate portrayal of the show circuit at the time, but rather a picture of "the way things could have been, the way they should have been." Trek as a whole has always pushed for more racial inclusion than the mainstream culture accepted at the time. Nichelle Noris was the first black person on television who wasn't a maid, the first interracial kiss on TV was on TOS, and there were lots of TNG, DS9 and VOY episodes that delt with racism.