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Showing Original Post only (View all)"White genocide in space". Snowflakes angry at "Star Trek: Discovery" for promoting diversity. [View all]
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/white-genocide-in-space-racist-fans-seethe-at-diversity-in-new-star-trek-series/The new series Star Trek Discovery stars Asian actress Michelle Yeoh as the ships captain and black actress Sonequa Martin-Green as her first officer and this has caused some Trekkies to fret about the lack of white men in charge.
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As both Heat Street and Daily Kos point out, the series YouTube page has been bombarded by comments labeling the show a SJW plot aimed at shoving political correctness, forced diversity, and even cultural Marxism down viewers throats.
Additionally, some angry Twitter users have even proclaimed that the shows diverse cast is evidence of a white genocide conspiracy aimed at eliminating the white race from the face of the Earth.
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What would they think about one of the aliens from "The Left Hand of Darkness"?
They are gender-fluid: Sometimes male, sometimes female, just as they desire.
Or what about a Star Trek-charatcer from a space-colony similar to the one from "The Moon is a harsh Mistress"?
Where a marriage does not consist of one man and one woman but a whole group of people of all ages? It's called a line-marriage and that woman is not "your" wife.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_marriage
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"White genocide in space". Snowflakes angry at "Star Trek: Discovery" for promoting diversity. [View all]
DetlefK
May 2017
OP
good who wants to sit next to those racist assholes in the theater anyway. Sick freaks
luvMIdog
May 2017
#4
maybe this old brain is mixing things up, but I seem to remember that ST had people of
niyad
May 2017
#10
Racist Trekkies are kind of like acrophobic skydivers or undocumented Muslim immigrants for Trump.
robertpaulsen
May 2017
#23