Using a small connection to Trek in order to expand your argument to social progressive commentary is not appropriate. It's not really about Trek at that point, it's just using Trek to preach about your social or political beliefs. Considering the last time you railed on about how you wanted your conversation about feminism. One would think you would be eager to begin a topic about your beliefs.
Falsely claiming someone lacks reading comprehension so you can ignore their post is not "consideration"....it's a cop-out.
If this is off topic and doesn't belong in the thread - I shouldn't be discussing it anyways. Why do you keep pressing the issue if it's not at all relevant?
I have, in fact, presented evidence that you have poor reading comprehension. Not the least of which is pointing out the absurdity of your jumping to the conclusion that pointing out the use of a literary trope somehow makes a judgement on the mental status of all mixed ethnicity people.
More explicitly, twice now you have repeatedly misstated my positions as the exact opposite of what I have written.
1)
I say:
Some of those identities already are. They're just under served. I don't think Trek "needs" to tell those stories, but when they do, I'd like them to do better.
LGBTQIA is a checklist of groups you want served. So, yes. You do want Trek to fill your alphabet quota. Gene died very shortly after making that promise. Stop dancing on his grave.
LGBTQIA is actually just what the acronym is. Not a checklist. I explicitly said it was not a checklist multiple times. Yet here we are.
2)
Source quote:
The
tragic mulatto is a stereotypical
fictional character that appeared in
American literature during the 19th and 20th centuries, from the 1840s.
[1] The "tragic mulatto" is an
archetypical mixed-race person (a "mulatto"), who is assumed to be sad, or even suicidal, because they fail to completely fit in the "white world" or the "black world".
[1] As such, the "tragic mulatto" is depicted as the victim of the society in society divided by race, where there is no place for one who is neither completely "black" nor "white". This trope was also used by abolitionists in order to create a mixed-race, but white-appearing, slave that would serve as a tool to express sentimentality to white readers in an effort to paint slaves as "more human"
(bold added for emphasis)
You:
According to your own reference a "Tragic Mulatto" must be sad or depressed, or possibly even suicidal concerning their mixed-race heritage.
Not the discrepancy between "assumed to be" and "must be" which changes the meaning, as well as noting that the source of the conflict is between the individual and society, not an internal struggle with one's heritage.
3)
Nobody thinks there should be a literal quota. That's not what's being said.
Tell you what, exactly how much alt-lifestyle should there be? Say in a cast of 10 characters. How many should be alt and how often should they display that trait?
You sent me an insult PM. Telling you to stop PMing me is a justified response.
Right, I gave you your safe space away from the horribly sexist word "mansplaining."
I didn't respond to your posts in this thread or others after that. I didn't PM again. You're the one who wanted to come after my opinion and blow it up on the forum.
Copy-pasting arguments sort of shows you aren't really aren't doing any careful consideration of what you're reading. You failed to address my points about the wiki list and instead decided to claim I couldn't read because you couldn't address the points raised.
Because your point about the wiki list is dumb and nobody in their right mind would think that concluding that mixed race people are sad is the logical extension of Spock being included as a representative of a trope.
But since you insist on being proven wrong publicly, I'm going to use what someone else wrote in this thread to demonstrate the point about the trope.
I find that very unrealistic. Even during Spock's time, his being half-human was extremely frowned upon, only his father being an ambassador gave him any credence. They didn't want to let Spock into the science academy because he wasn't full-blooded Vulcan. Somehow, having human, any human, being taken seriously and given a Vulcan upbringing makes no sense at all.
The Vulcans frowned upon his half human heritage. Gee, that seems as if he fits in neither the "human world" or the "Vulcan world" completely and that the show derives some narrative conflict from that.
Now that I discovered the source of your argument you're trying to cop-out again and act like you've moved on. Just so you can try and insult me again as "consumed" when I'm really just answering you post for post.
I have no problem debating, when people want to communicate like adults. But you seem to want to resort to insults no matter what. You did it before, you're doing it now. I think you should take your own advice and hit that ignore button if you can't control yourself.
Dude, we're all talking about Discovery now. You're the one that keeps dragging it up.