Hogs use "woke" the same way they accuse the left of using "racist".
Back in the day, I'll admit to being a Pro-GamerGate individual, my train of thought was "why are liberals mad at video games, video games are a conservative thing! SJWs want to force their ideology everywhere in places where they don't belong! Save me daddy GOP!"
Lo and behold, conservatives and Bible thumpers are doing exactly what they said they'd stop feminists from doing.
Star Trek literally had the first interracial kiss on American TV at a time when the vast majority of the US thought that was wrong.
To whatever extent that a network tv show can be "woke" Star Trek has always been that.
Apparently for that scene the studio wanted to do a shot without the kiss, but Shatner kept deliberately fucking up all the takes by gurning and generally fucking around so the studio couldn't chicken out.
What? The show whose protagonists and heroes are the crewmembers of scientific exploration spaceships operating as part of a space communist utopia is woke? Well fuck me, never saw that coming.
Remember when the show stayed out of politics by putting a Russian man and a Black woman on the officer's deck of a ship constructed by a peaceful one-world government in 1966?
Holy shit, next you'll be telling me that said federation has had from the 60's really strict rules surrounding contact with other pre warp species and doesn't just rock up and invade even if the planet in question has a shit tonne of natural resources.
Imagine an actual exigent country with The Prime Directive codified and enforced in the law.
Nothing bitter about right wing spite politics, nothing at all. :sus-soviet:
CW: It's fucking Drawn Together but the point still stands.
"Lol look at the loser and his not-so-socially-acceptable hobbies!" "WHAT!? The loser show doesn't have me. The political popular kid, as a target audience!? THIS IS A TRAVESTY!"
Fascists, You already have: Vidya culture, anime culture, youtube, streaming, podcasts, country music, church, ALL of the internet, and much much more. Let me have my ONE thing that tells me I am not the scum of the earth for not being racist.
CW: It’s fucking Drawn Together but the point still stands.
That show had such powerful South Park energy.
Fascists, You already have: Vidya culture, anime culture, youtube, streaming, podcasts, country music, church, ALL of the internet, and much much more.
Jesus Christ, no they do not. They've got their niche carve-out culture of weird reactionary hate in these places. But we've been hearing people bitch about some variation of Woke Cancel Culture or whatever for centuries. The corporate homogenization of media is squeezing that niche culture out right along with a bunch of other regional and cultural variants. And the modernized Star Treks aren't any different. They're getting processed into the bland generic empty-calories action franchise slurry that every producer says the test audience wants to see.
The truly offensive thing about these warm shit takes is that they're totally divorced from reality. Every reboot of Star Trek since Voyager has been worse than the one before it, in large part because its just seen as a Cinematic Universe intellectual property rather than set of themes that creative directors are supposed to have some fucking fun with. Nobody wants to take anything resembling a risk with the franchise, so they just turn out the inoffensive drivel that satisfies investors.
Fascism must always feel invincible yet persecuted, and their enemies must always seem pathetic yet also a dire threat. :frothingfash:
