This topic came up when I was talking to my brother recently. He has three girls and they just finished watching the Obi-Wan show and my brother said that show was such a blatant example of pushing girl power where it made no sense and it clearly showed the writers didn't know or didn't care about Star Wars. Now my brother likes Andor and Mandalorian so he isn't at my level where I cancelled Disney plus and truly despise disney Star Wars, but around his girls I remain positive since I don't want to ruin their fun because the sequels were the first Star Wars they were exposed to and then they watched the rest. I am thinking for Christmas I may buy some EU books for his daughters to get them into that timeline.
But he was just frustrated at the endless push to get women into things that generally appeal to men and he said men and women generally like different things. It's just that simple.
I would love to be at one of the panels at a Con where someone like Anita Sarkessian or the Star Wars, RIngs of Power, Wheel of Time writers give their usual speech about not seeing many women, people of color, etc. and simply ask them why they don't understand that certain thing appeal to more guys than women or that there were always women/minorities that were into these hobbies but they think something is wrong if a large number of white guys enjoy something.
Anyway, do you see this trend waning? I'd like to think so but even with constant flops nothing changes. I really miss the days of being laughed at for reading comic books or a sci-fi novel because the worthless activists in charge of the shows or the ones winning the Hugos or Nebulas were most likely the very people who mocked nerds or thought gamers were losers until they saw those things being trendy and jumped on board.
i just posted this - https://communities.win/c/ConsumeProduct/p/16Zr116KQM/its-not-about-white-people-per-s/c
Not sure if I should reply there or here. Maybe here so other KA2 people see because I imagine I already know how ConPro will reply to this...
The problem with defending "western civilization" rather than defending "white people" is that your idea of western civilization and my idea of western civilization are going to differ; however, both of us can agree on whether either of us are white. In this way, it's easier to rally people behind race than it is to rally them behind "western civilization".
I know exactly what you mean though. My best friend is central american. He technically isn't white but he gets lumped into white for everything and would be a staunch defender of this "western civilization" you speak of. He sometimes jokes how he agrees with White Nationalist groups when it comes to values/beliefs but if those groups ever got their way, they'd kick him out which sucks. It also sucks for me because he's my best friend and I think the exact same thing. I'd want him to be a part of "Western Civilization" but I too support the White Nationalists and know if they got their way, they'd want to deport him out of the country.
However, I do believe that even in White Nationalist ideals, you can have some non-whites in the country. 1-2% of the total pop not being white isn't going to fuckup any dynamics. If we went to war with China for example, I'd fully expect some of our warriors to take back some hot Chinese women as sex slaves. It's what Aryans have always done. Pretty sure some of the oldest Greek works is about taking war brides. I do think people who are overly race focused sometimes get too extreme. Is a person who is 3/4 white and 1/4 Chinese a white person or not? The Slavs are often mixed significantly with the Mongolians. The Spanish today have a significant amount of blood from darker Muslims in them. The Greek/Romans today are also mixed with darker Muslim blood compared to Ancient Greek/Romans. So being a little too focused on race can be a problem also.
Even Hitler had Jewish friends. Here's an example of one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Bloch
Anyway, the point I'm making though is that it's much easier to rally people behind race than it is ideology. Even if race is subjective, there's far less controversy on whether you are x race or not than on what "Western Civilization" means. And race actually matters. Race is a representation of genetics and genetics influence one's behavior and it's that behavior which matters for building a culture and a "Western Civilization" so race is a major factor in how you want to build your society.
How do you know if a black person who says he supports "Western Civilization" actually does or not? You don't. However, you likely would find White People, of all the races have the highest correlative factor to believing in Western Civilization values (however you define them) than any other race, so you don't need to believe what a person is telling you, you can just see from their race whether they likely would align with western values or not.
The biggest problem in western society has been coming from jews who tell white people that they believe in western values while the jews undermine western values by subverting the society toward values not inline with western values. If you made society 100% White People only it would immediately solve one of the biggest problems and it would be much harder to subvert through deception. You can't really deceive people about your race, very easily, though the jews even attempt to do that by convincing people they are white when they aren't.
I think once we've established a racially unified society, then discussions on the controversial things such as what is "Western Civilization" can begin.