it's honestly wild talking to like. random liberals about sci fi sometimes because they just don't... think about the ramifications of their random beliefs and what the end points of their ideologies are
"gene roddenberry's vision was that by the time of star trek, earth had moved on from the need for religion!"
and it's like. i get it. you forget that every religion exists except american christianity. or you think that all religion basically is american christianity.
but when you say to me, "hey, in my utopian future, jews and muslims and their cultures have simply been eradicated <3"
that. doesn't strike me as very utopian. it sounds very, funnily enough, christofascist
"it's the 24th century and these lads are literally doing bits from hamlet, but don't worry, jews have ceased to exist"
like there's constant quotes from shakespeare or dickens or conan doyle or countless other authors from the literary canon, and that literary canon is predominantly made up of white male christian authors, most of whom are british or american
and all of the human culture in star trek is predominantly defined by white american christian mores and cultural ideals, slightly modernised, but not by that much
it's a desire to treat an ultra modern culture as inherently homogenous because for a certain kind of xenophobic liberal, they genuinely internalise the idea that multiculturism is the cause of strife and conflict rather than lack of tolerance for other cultures, and frankly, they've never truly been comfortable in any sort of multicultural environment
and it's just. gross. and it's honestly wild to me that people will spend like. days and days thinking of the "ethical ramifications" of their like, transporter clone plot, but won't think for a second, "hey, i've created a world where jews, muslims, sikhs, hindus, buddhists, and countless other religious and ethnic groups No Longer Exist, and that's go-- um. wait a second--"
