I know I need to get off of FB but I got this in a Star Wars EU group I'm in and I simply asked the guy who posted it if he thinks he is saying something important? I definitely noticed a big change within the past years in certain fandoms so that isn't just my imagination. But anyways, how would y'all respond and since this is a common thing about current woke "fans" is there anything to rebut this? I know Eric July did a video a while back in regards to comic books.
Forever taking risks since TOS. FOR THE UNEDUCATED. • X-Men is about civil rights. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get X-Men. • Black Panther is about civil rights. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Black Panther. • Captain America literally fought nazis. He is the embodiment of fighting the alt-right. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Captain America. • The Empire in Star Wars is fascist. The Rebel alliance are Anti-Fascist. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Star Wars. • Doctor Who was about an alien fighting for all of humanity in spite of totalitarian regimes. If you don't get that, you don't get Doctor Who. • The Punisher isn’t meant to be a role model for police or armed forces. So much so that the writers of The Punisher made him actively speak out against it in a comic. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get The Punisher. • Deadpool is queer. He’s pansexual. Fact. If you didn’t get that you didn’t get Deadpool. • Star Trek is about equality for all genders, races and sexualities. As early as the mid-60s it was taking a pro-choice stance and defending women’s right to choose. One of its clearest themes is accepting different cultures and appearances and working together for peace. (It’s also anti-capitalist and pro-vegan). If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Star Trek. • Superman and Wonder Woman (and a whole host of other superheroes) are immigrants. The stance of those comics is pro-immigration and pro-equality and acceptance. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Superman or Wonder Woman. • Stan Lee said, “Racism and bigotry are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today.” If you’re bigoted or racist, you didn’t get any of the characters Stan Lee created. • The stories we grew up with all taught us to value other people and cultures and to treasure the differences between us. Only villains were xenophobic, or sexist, or racist, or totalitarian. I can’t understand how anyone can have missed that. • If you’re upset that there’s a black Spider-Man, or a black Captain America, or a female Thor, or that Ms. Marvel is Muslim, or that Captain Marvel was pro-feminism or any of the other things right-wing “fans” say is “stealing their childhood” - you never got it in the first place. The things you claim are now “pandering to the lefties” were never on your side, to begin with. If you consider yourself a fan of these things, but you still think the LGBTQ+ community is too “in your face”, or have a problem with Black Lives Matter, or want to “take the country back from immigrants”, then you’re not really a fan at all. Geek culture isn’t suddenly left-wing... it always was. You just grew up to be intolerant. You became the villain in the stories you used to love.
I could probably do a 500 word essay, easily, on how Star Trek is the definition of conservative (in hundreds of years, culture hasn't progressed past 19th/20th C). Not only that, but Starfleet is canonically segregated (different ships/stations are crewed by mostly single species. The Enterprise is a human ship, for example) because of biological necessity. Not only that, but with minimal interpolation, you can make a compelling argument that the reason the Federation was founded was because non-Europeans nuked themselves into near-extinction.
But I'm not going to write that essay because the assertions you came across are retarded and in bad faith. I won't spend energy refuting them and neither should you.
Absolutely, 100%.
They have replicators that automatically create food or build anything that's ever been designed, and rather than everyone lying around having orgies all day and eating until they need to go to the vomitorium, people are risking their lives to explore the stars and colonize every habitable planet that isn't already host to an intelligent civilization? And they take their FAMILIES with them? Hello? THERE ARE CHILDREN ON THE ENTERPRISE! There are children (of monogamous parents!) being essentially inducted into the military practically from birth!
And what of art? They venerate centuries old classics.
Data's paintings are interesting, too. They're almost all realist paintings, and while realist art is a hallmark of socialist and communist propaganda of the 20th century, these states were (and are) all socially conservative, no matter their economic policy.
Considering the technology they possess, and the lifestyles it would enable them to lead, The Federation is deeply conservative.
Despite Roddenberry's hang ups with religion, all the TNG characters are deeply, culturally Christian, moreso than the average American today. Several characters espouse the pursuit of self-betterment, especially when the goal is unobtainable, which is almost the definition of Christiandom.
In the 80s, Iain M. Banks started writing The Culture because, to his mind, all mainstream science fiction was hierarchical (military) and innately right-wing/authoritarian. Banks wanted to see if innately libertarian (colored by his own left, secular, socialist worldview) science fiction was possible. Now, apparently, all science fiction has always been communist. Too bad Banks' life's work was pointless, apparently.