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Old September 6th, 2019, 04:33 PM   #155
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Default Re: Battlestar Galactica Movie News

Let's look at the SJW/Leftist buzzwords of "inclusivity" and "representation".

Take a movie like Star Trek Beyond (my favorite all time Star Trek film). Even though the film had this misguided notion of honoring George Takei by making the character Sulu gay, the way in which they handled both on and off screen was admirable enough. They never front-loaded with a bunch of SJW propaganda, and they kept Sulu's homosexuality down to thirty seconds (if that). He sees his little girl, Demora, goes to embrace her, and walks off with his partner, another man, arms around each other...and that's it. Otherwise, the story goes right back to Sulu being a competent, loyal and capable StarFleet officer. Nothing further is mentioned. Even George Takei himself balked at the misplaced honor, stating that he always saw Roddenberry's version of Sulu as straight (and he was portrayed as such in the original series and even in the first six movies).

Contrast this with Star Trek Discovery: Up front, the showrunners and actors were pushing the "selling point" that two of their major supporting characters were openly gay, and would explore their relationship. They also act as if the character, Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), is the first black and/or female of prominence in Star Trek.

They push these narratives in the misbegotten names of "diversity", "inclusivity", and "representation". Little do they realize or even remember that Star Trek was always about "diversity", "inclusivity", and "representation"....the original Trek and its follow up shows and movies just never made big virtue signals out of those traits. Nowadays, however, a show must push those appropriated virtues to the forefront of their narratives to try and force change on a world that is trying to change at its own pace.

The "tolerant" and "inclusive" Left are nothing of the sort. They are the most intolerant, racist, misogynistic, -phobic, and hypocritical beings on the planet....but, as always, they deflect and cast the shade of those traits by accusing normal people of being the very things that the Left/SJWs are.
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