Btw I'm also disappointed in this episode because they had a setup here to model what to do as someone who benefits from oppression but wasn't directly responsible for it
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Btw I'm also disappointed in this episode because they had a setup here to model what to do as someone who benefits from oppression but wasn't directly responsible for it
And they threw that away, opting for the much weirder message to send
Namely: "actually, maybe the oppressed person is the real racist here, because *they* assumed that the person who is from the class who benefits from oppression isn't actually the child of a super-ally, so there"
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The research fairyreplied to The research fairy last edited by
And yes "don't make assumptions about people" or "communicate with each other" is a good message as far as it goes
But much like everything in recent Star Trek
They got the power dynamics in their allegory exactly backward and so they're sending a message that they haven't thought through and probably don't mean to send
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The research fairyreplied to The research fairy last edited by
I keep trying to dissect the state of mind you'd have to be in to write this episode and the mind absolutely boggles
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Sam Whitedreplied to The research fairy last edited by
@researchfairy right? I just re-watched this recently and while it's still pretty much the only season of Discovery that I thought was fairly strong throughout, as always a few things like this just stick out like a sore thumb. I mean, I get that the whole point was she's trying to teach them to communicate and then when they finally do that they stop making assumptions, great, but damn this could have been so much more interesting *facepalm*
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@researchfairy after posting a link to your thread, it also reminded me of the episode in Season 5 where Michael does a bit of light Colonialism on a random pre-warp indigenous coded civilization and now I'm having to resist posting a long rant
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