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In reply to the discussion: White genocide in space: Racist fans seethe at diversity in new Star Trek series [View all]zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)40. It is interesting to watch 50 years out.
The vast majority of it is relatively "progressive" especially if one considers the time in which it was written. The female uniforms, not to mention the way almost every alien woman was dressed, was ridiculously unpractical by any measure. (Would a women really go into harms way in stockings?). And there were a few too many "damsel in distress" scenes/plots. But they got alot of stuff "right", especially considering it was written 50 years ago. And to complain today that the casts are "too diverse" would be absurd. "Whites" (Europeans) make up a small slice of earth population, and would be an almost odd slice of the universe population (presuming that aliens are rarely pale in pigmentation).
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White genocide in space: Racist fans seethe at diversity in new Star Trek series [View all]
workinclasszero
May 2017
OP
If they are racist, then they are unlikely to have ever gotten the point of what Star Trek is about,
Tiggeroshii
May 2017
#51
An entire point of Star Trek from the very beginning, has been diversity.
Warren DeMontague
May 2017
#65