I feel pretty much the same about anyone who complains about something being “woke”, no matter the topic - if perceiving and objecting to harms against and struggles of others not like yourself offends you, if seeing others actively try to work in support of those others is something you just can’t stomach, then you aren’t someone whose opinion I care about.
Plus the folks making those complaints can rarely define what woke is, or struggle to without using language that will immediately “out” their actual objections.
If anyone ever uses the word woke you can automatically assume they’re a moron who only gets outraged at what fox news tells them to be outraged at.
We should only watch the real old trek.
I mean, it was one of the first shows ever to:
- have a woman in a command position,
- depict a black person in a non-servile role,
- show Russians and Americans working as a team during the Cold War, and
- have an Asian character portrayed by an actual Asian actor,
but it wasn’t woke!
Have a Japanese character about 20 years after ww2.
MLK Jr himself called Nichelle Nichols to encourage her to play Uhura. First interracial kiss on scripted television. She worked with NASA after Trek to encourage and recruit black and female astronauts.
Which sounds wholesome (and I don’t say it’s not at all) until you realize Nichols wanted to do something else, I think it was musicals, and King convinced her by saying “we need you to have representation. When you’re gone, anyone can take that position, even an alien” and so she stayed instead of self realization.
That is pretty sad, but I think she and he were both right to respect the impact she had by staying in the role.
The most iconic science fiction crew of all time will forever include a prominent impressive black woman. Nichelle made that happen, through her performances.
