I would call that protowoke. It's a refusal to acknowledge irrationality, stupidity, and the enjoyment of hatred. It's a very dangerous mindset that is still running a lot of the West.
That's not protowoke. Wokeism isn't about refusal to acknowledge irrationality, stupidity and the enjoyment of hatred. Wokeism
is irrationality, stupidity and the enjoyment of hatred. The woke don't think 'Oh, if only we could all understand each other, we'd all get along'. No, they don't
want to understand their ideological opponents, they want to
bully them into accepting their narrow worldview on a small selection of topics, typically race, gender, sexuality and climate change, with no room for nuance, debate or criticism, or no concern for deeper issues.
For that reason alone TNG is not even 'protowoke'
And the left
do acknowledge irrationality, stupidity or the enjoyment of hatred. It's just that they either disingenuously deny those things, or try to argue that those things are justified because the people engaging in them are oppressed. They'd argue that the ANC in South Africa have the right to kill the white farmers and confiscate their land because the white farmers oppressed them all those years ago, for example.
You saw the same shit with that awful animaniacs reboot. “We were always political!” Yes, you always made political and cultural jokes, but you weren’t hyper lefty and Republican bashing.
Yeah, that annoyed me too. Like you say, they made political and cultural jokes, but they weren't
sharp like that, you know? They were just gentle jabs, it was a kids' show. They made fun of Democrats and Republicans almost equally, they took the piss out of Bill Clinton almost constantly.
They could never do anything like that now because they don't know how to approach political topics without propagandising them
