• chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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    They didn’t have everything figured out back then. For one, they bullied Spock for what we could only describe today as his neurodiversity.

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      The message I got from McCoy was that humans got along because they found new people to be racist against instead of each other

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      And there will be things that are being created today that’s considered progressive that in 20 years, will be considered as missing the mark.

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      McCoy called Spock “green-blooded” on multiple occasions - and once a “hobgoblin”. And I would call the Vulcan penchant for logic a cultural trait, not neurodiversity.

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      You should see the episode when a woman body swapped with Kirk, and how the Enterprise crew suspected something was wrong

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        The one I always feel like I need to warn people about is the treatment of Rand in The Enemy Within. Particularly since that happens so early in the series.

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      McCoy was racist as shit and would not only have been cashiered, he probably would have been charged for hate speech