• DrivebyHaiku@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Honestly I think the difference perceived by the “too woke” brigade is that a lot of the older storylines featured what felt like exceptions to the norm. Smaller instances of people being accepting. An example might be a trans person existing was a whole storyline usually with a gimmick rather than just a given that was treated as the norm that requires no explanation. Individuals being chill very rarely is their problem. It’s when someone tries to get them to change their ways and accept something as “normal” that they go bonkers

    But yeah… Woke is such a non term referring to any cultural advancement of acceptance at scale that of course Star Trek was always “woke” it was culturally transformative and minority aware from the beginning