Social Justice Warriors - Now With Less Feminism Sperging

This is one of those comics you're like, "what is the intended message and/or insult?"

Whole thing seems like an overly verbose version of this meme.
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What's funny is how many of those episodes are kind of poor.

Sure Trek 4 has like the record for highest box office (even NOT adjusted for inflation IIRC) but... it's also really goofy. Alien space probe just sent to talk to whales? "Duet" (the "holocaust" square) is by far the best written of those but it's also beyond that topic, it's about racism and not letting yourself be consumed by hate.

By far the most important point is that in the best examples (Duet, Drumhead, Trek 6, Past Tense), the writing was more important than the politics. The rule I always use: can the episode still work if you remove any knowledge about the "politics" behind it. If you don't know anything about Vietnam, that episode only barely makes any sense. What everyone is really complaining about (which their arguments are then distorted) is that the politics is just used for weak writing.

It's basically the difference between a serious examination of the temptations of power and what can drive a person with good intentions to do evil things vs a story that just points at a cartoon character and screams "Orange Man Bad!"
 
What's funny is how many of those episodes are kind of poor.
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (second RACISM) hasn't aged well, but man, it contains some purestrain Frank Gorshin.

The Outcast (GENDER) is basically about Riker taking a theyfab out to touch grass, and being such a hot stud that she drops out of her queers-only Discord server. Putting a lady in the "androgynous" makeup was a copout at the time, but now it makes the TQ+ adopting the episode ironic. In the distant future, the final frontier is heterosexuality.
 
These annoy me because, while I feel tha they are just shoehorning the word 'woke' into Star Trek and Avatar: the Last Airbender, I do not know how to disprove this. I do not mean actually arguing with social justice warriors, but merely resolving this premise in my mind.

The distinction between older Trek and the shit we get today is that most of the old stuff used allegory and symbolism to address the underlying themes of social and political issues, whereas current trek just takes current hot-button issues and slaps a haphazard coat of Star Trek paint on top. Allegory is actively discouraged by current dogma, as it "minimises" the issue by framing it in ways that are digestible by the unenlightened audience. It's almost like they deliberately want to make people angry, thinking that the anger will drive them toward their cause rather than drive them away.

To give an example: "A Private Little War", which the graphic you posted just labels "Vietnam", is analysed as an allegory for US involvement in the war, but if you just watch it in isolation, you get very little sense of that. It could equally be analysed as an allegory for colonialism, or for subversion of a peaceful, western-friendly nation by a hostile ideology. Its point, such as it is, is best interpreted as being that people with superior technology shouldn't be using it to create conflict for their own advantage.

If it were written today, it would have the Federation invading a planet on behalf of an oppressive overclass, with the Klingons taking the explicit role of the Chinese and supplying arms to oppressed rebels, all scored with a Fortunate Son sound-alike in some alien one-shot language.

As an aside, reducing The Drumhead down to "fascism" fails to understand what the episode is about (it's about vigilance against encroaching, ideologically motivated persecution and supremacism no matter the source) and whoever made that picture should probably just jump off the top of the warp core.

Sure Trek 4 has like the record for highest box office (even NOT adjusted for inflation IIRC) but... it's also really goofy.
Maybe, but after 2 and 3, the goofiness and return to more TOS-era-style shenanigans was a welcome break. I'd take 4-style goof over whatever we got in 5.
 
Maybe, but after 2 and 3, the goofiness and return to more TOS-era-style shenanigans was a welcome break. I'd take 4-style goof over whatever we got in 5.
Oh keep in mind I was talking from a perspective of objectively looking at the writing as a craft, not personal enjoyment. 4 is a great watch - heck I can enjoy 5 as a very guilty pleasure (it was also quite goofy). But then I can even like 7 (Generations ) though that doesn't make it a good story.

The larger point I was addressing is these people's belief that politics makes something good. They don't get that they're only proving the point of the other side that politics often makes stories worse.

A confusion of terms also doesn't help. It would really do to distinguish between "politics" in that "the way people and their societies interact with each other" vs "issues" which could be short for "whatever people are upset about in current day." The former gets us Star Trek 6. The latter gets us the hippie episode.

(Also funny that they mark the 6 square with "jingoism" instead something like "downfall of communism.")
 
These annoy me because, while I feel tha they are just shoehorning the word 'woke' into Star Trek and Avatar: the Last Airbender, I do not know how to disprove this. I do not mean actually arguing with social justice warriors, but merely resolving this premise in my mind.
Its not political, its propaganda.

Arguing with people like that makes you a fuck wit. You will never beat them, you will never convert them, you will never expose them. They are thoughtless cattle, and you are just wasting your time.
 
Its not political, its propaganda.

Arguing with people like that makes you a fuck wit. You will never beat them, you will never convert them, you will never expose them. They are thoughtless cattle, and you are just wasting your time.
I know that. I am just expressing my frustrati on being unable to put into words just why they are wrong. I have no interest in getting into pointless internet arguments.
 
Here is one of many 'Star Trek is woke' Tweets:
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Then there is Avatar: the Last Airbender:
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These annoy me because, while I feel tha they are just shoehorning the word 'woke' into Star Trek and Avatar: the Last Airbender, I do not know how to disprove this. I do not mean actually arguing with social justice warriors, but merely resolving this premise in my mind.
That explains why Avatar is absolute trash. I would rather watch 4kids One piece, actually no I would rather watch the Bulma/Ginyu filler from DBZ.
 
If the situation were reversed and SJWs were the "normal" ones and non-SJWs really were "far right", America could be an extremist theocracy. Anything disagreeing with that fundamentalism would be called "alt-left", "far-left", or "radical-left". Such a fanatical worldview would be pushed everywhere, from academia to mainstream media.
 
If you'll forgive my autistic, armchair psychology analysis, that's kind of the main issue, in a way. SJW's, and leftists in general, are primarily motivated by envy, jealousy, and laziness. I firmly believe that these people, upon seeing a happy, loving, heterosexual couple, are simply jealous that they don't have that, but also too lazy to do anything about it. It's why they constantly attack and denigrate the brave, heroic, beautiful characters of old, and why all of the characters they create are whiny, petulant, childish, and ugly self-inserts. They're too lazy to change themselves or aspire to something greater than they are, so they must create new "heroes" that they can relate to, characters just as ugly and deficient as they are.

When they see Bayonetta, a character they assumed to be some kind of feminist icon for "girl power," suddenly in a loving, heterosexual relationship with children, they lose their shit, because suddenly the character they loved is now an object of envy and resentment. It makes them feel inferior and weak, but rather than channel those feelings into self-improvement, they simply throw a tantrum, cry about their contrived "oppression" dynamics, and then wallow in their own laziness and egotism.

It's kind of like discovering your hero is actually a serial rapist who kidnaps, rapes, and murders children, except since these are SJWs and they embody sin and vice rather than virtue or righteousness, they find out their super rad-fem girl power hero is actually a good person, a mother, and in a loving, heterosexual relationship.
They're mad when anyone is happy. Bayonetta could be in a happy, loving lesbian relationship with the queen of Hell and they'd still be outraged.
 
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