The Official Star Trek Thread

[Maxwell]

The alt/far-right think it's "white genocide" when the snowflakes melt in spring, too.

And the word of the day is...

[MarkD]

Glad I'm still near the center, away from the fringes.
I don't watch TV, so I'm going to miss seeing this show.

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Who care

[7,052,770]

Even better reason to be excited about it.

[Technocracy Timmy]

This doesn't "sound" like alt right youth, more like typical angry old men.

Alt right youth would complain about interracial dating or Jews far more than just seeing women or people of color on the screen.

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This doesn't "sound" like alt right youth, more like typical angry old men.

Alt right youth would complain about interracial dating or Jews far more than just seeing women or people of color on the screen.

It's happened before. Remember #BoycottStarWarsVII?

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Do they not know anything about Gene Rodenberry?

[Technocracy Timmy]

This doesn't "sound" like alt right youth, more like typical angry old men.

Alt right youth would complain about interracial dating or Jews far more than just seeing women or people of color on the screen.

It's happened before. Remember #BoycottStarWarsVII?

I thought that that was partly 4chan trolls combined with anger at the black character being a potential romantic interest with the white female lead.

I can't keep up with all of their shenanigans anyhow

[Antonio the Sixth]

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This doesn't "sound" like alt right youth, more like typical angry old men.

Alt right youth would complain about interracial dating or Jews far more than just seeing women or people of color on the screen.

It's happened before. Remember #BoycottStarWarsVII?

I thought that that was partly 4chan trolls combined with anger at the black character being a potential romantic interest with the white female lead.

I can't keep up with all of their shenanigans anyhow

I remember when I still believed 4chan was trolling. I wish I still did.

[KingSweden]

Do they not know anything about Gene Rodenberry?

Indeed. I recall a Jew, black woman, a Russian (!! Big deal in the 60s) and a gay Asian on the original version

[Unapologetic Chinaperson]

Do they not know anything about Gene Rodenberry?

Indeed. I recall a Jew, black woman, a Russian (!! Big deal in the 60s) and a gay Asian on the original version

I wonder what George Takei (said gay Asian, if it weren't obvious) thinks about this.

[Sumner 1868]

They shouldn't report on this. It'll only encourage them to keep it up.

[Blue3]

I kind of want there to be an actual blockbuster movie about actual white genocide, maybe even title it "White Genocide," where after Kenya's supervirus to kill all white people succeeds there's a new hedonistic globalist paradise of Muslim Gay Orgies while listening to rap music and Obama is revealed as the Second Coming of Jesus and takes his place God-King... and have it make a billion bucks in the theaters... just to watch some heads explode.

[Person Man]

I kind of want there to be an actual blockbuster movie about actual white genocide, maybe even title it "White Genocide," where after Kenya's supervirus to kill all white people succeeds there's a new hedonistic globalist paradise of Muslim Gay Orgies while listening to rap music and Obama is revealed as the Second Coming of Jesus and takes his place God-King... and have it make a billion bucks in the theaters... just to watch some heads explode.

[Neo-JacobitefromNewYork]

The subreddit r/Drama hilariously renamed the White Genocide meme to the Mayocide, they like to troll the hell out of the alt-right and r/donald with their promotion of it semi-ironically.

[Tender Branson]

SMG hits back against the racists who think "Star Trek Discovery" is not white enough:

http://ew.com/tv/2017/06/22/star-trek-discovery-diversity

BTW, the release date is September 24.

[Old Man Willow]

These people are ruining the internet. Beyond sick of them. Also, it's insane to protest Star Trek, a show which featured the first interracial kiss on tv, for being diverse.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Lol the alt right

[Fight for Trump]

People watch Star Trek?

[pbrower2a]

Do they not know anything about Gene Rodenberry?

Indeed. I recall a Jew, black woman, a Russian (!! Big deal in the 60s) and a gay Asian on the original version

Jewish cast members included William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and Walter Koenig, and none of them seemed particularly Jewish; if anything, Spock's Vulcan character seemed like a synthesis of Buddhism and Quakerism. (Heck, I thought when I was a kid that William Shatner was a German-American, as the character is from rural Iowa. Now I know that just about any German surname can be 'Jewish'). DeForest Kelley and James Doohan were Celts. George Takei scrupulously stayed in the closet, at least on filmed footage. Nichelle Nichols, of course...  took a male part and did it well.

[Chief Justice Keef]

I like how the alt-right thinks they're so above "ess-jay-double-yous" identity politics, but the truth is they're fighting the same culture war bulls--t.

Whatever wastes these guys' time the most, I guess.

[pbrower2a]

Attending Star Fleet Academy as preparation "to boldly go where nobody has gone before" would overpower so many issues of origin that diversity in Star Fleet would be a banality. The tendency away from racial purity  is already strong. Figure that the Talented Tenth of black people intermarries white people with whom they have much in common by profession, culture, and education. A note to racists -- if white racial purity has an enemy it is not the street thug; it is the highly-talented African-American. And that is only the white-black divide.

Miscegenation is not genocide against the white race. 'Race', which used to be one of the clearest divides among Americans, is becoming much more ambiguous. A hint: the mother of Barack Obama was about 1/16 African-American.  The usual 'line' for 'passing' is about 1/8 black.

As usual, any systematic attempt at racial science that does not have genetics as its foundations is crank stuff... and vile.

[afleitch]

If attending Starfleet was in any way like the army/team sports, white guys would all be cut anyway.

[Middle-aged Europe]

The Alt-Right has overlooked that there already had been two Star Trek shows back in the 90s with a black captain, and then a woman captain.

So, it's time to say to them: Welcome to the 20th century!!

(Since they haven't arrived to the 20th century yet, we have to welcome them to it first before we can welcome them to the 21st.)