• techno156@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, the riots are probably fine, since anyone with no context would just see it as generic protest footage, or something along those lines.

    Some massaging a few decades from now could tie it to the 2025 sanctuary city riots, or some other historical event instead of Jan 6 with barely any changes at all.

    The Elon Musk reference definitely aged poorly, though, although having some diversity in views around historical inventors could be pretty interesting in its own right. Someone might hate Cochrane because he ended up with the credit for the warp engine, even though he didn’t build it, and only did it for the fame and money, while others might respect him for his contributions to humanity, and being instrumental in Earth’s official First Contact with aliens.

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      The Sanctuary City riots are a perfect example of doing a great job of tackling social issues without tying it directly to a specific contemporary event. I would have preferred a fictional near-future event than an event that had barely just happened, much less one that we still haven’t felt the full effects of yet.

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        I think in that particular case, it’s quite fine to pass judgment that this was a very bad thing.

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          Just like star trek often talks about ww2 and nazis and are rightfully portrayed as the bad guys. Just because the riots were more recent doesn’t make them any less relevant.

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            Trek regularly makes judgment calls on specific topics – racism is bad, violence is bad when there’s an alternative.

            IDIC