Quick, let's misquote Gene Roddenberry
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What did he really say? Sounds too much like something the garbage trek writers of today would push because they value diversity over good storytelling. I get where he stood on things but I enjoyed Trek up to Enterprise. I have seen young people being offended by Uhura not getting upset about being called a charming negress.
I found this quote, which really isn't that far off. ""Diversity contains as many treasures as those waiting for us on other worlds. We will find it impossible to fear diversity and to enter the future at the same time."
I can see diverse perspectives having value and I’ve read some cool folklore from all over the world but the worship of diversity for the sake of diversity is ridiculous or the push to downplay the majority demographic in the name of diversity is idiotic.
He had aliens without emotion, demigods, Russians who speak Klingon, a blind man guiding a spaceship, and a Frenchman who had a speech impediment. The diversity he showed was not the one people today speak of. In fact, when the show tried to do just that, it failed. So the quote itself is not a problem, it's the interpretation.
Very true