Star Trek Nerd Shit: TNG S1E21
@malevolent_usb_drive
Yes. Vietnam was an important context for TOS, but also Roddenberry's vision was always a Federation that practiced the highest ideals of the American experiment. So settler colonialism, but ethical 😎
The liberal view of indigenous people is pretty homogenous. The idea that indigenous people on different continents might have different needs has never sunk in, so a cookie cutter approach in entertainment is predictable
nazi salute, court
As if to show that people should and can not expect courts to follow legislations banning racist incitement/threats, Svea Court of Appeal overturned the conviction of Nazi leader Vera Oredsson on motivation that the textbook example of a Nazi salute against counter-demonstrators in Borlänge, Sweden on May Day 2016... "maybe wasn't" a Nazi salute.
Compare to Vera's own literal textbook example, wherein Vera long ago illustrated to NRP (Nordiska Rikspartiet/the Nordic Realm Party) members how to do the "Hitler-greeting" as it's called in Swedish, something Vera is well experienced at being a former member of the "Bund Deutscher Mädel", the female version of "Hitlerjugend" (Hitler Youth).
Vera was Führer of the party during 1975–1978, which was originally named "Sweden's National-socialist Combat League" and had its own SA-group (Riksaktionsgruppen/RAG).
DNA pioneer James Watson has final honours stripped amid racism row
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/james-watson-racism-honours-dna-double-helix-cold-spring-harbor-laboratory-a8724896.html
Tragic 😢
Watson needs to read Stephen Jay Gould's book 'The Mismeasure of Man'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould
article: '...According to top geneticists, even the most sophisticated DNA assessments are unable to find solid evidence of racial differences in intelligence.
Dr Watson told an interviewer in 2007 he was “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – where all the testing says not really”.
He also said that while he would like everyone to be equal, “people who have to deal with black employees find this is not true"...'
@starwall introducing the brorb
queer/geek/artist/entomologist/professional regiphagist
transphobes/aphobes/biphobes/panphobes and pedos please kindly fuck off