Didn’t see your other comment. Agree on DS9. Also think the last few seasons of TNG were outstanding. But DS9 was by far the most effective series in my opinion.

I’m torn by this. I agree with you that it’s all too pleasant and clean to be taken seriously, but I disagree that the vision hamstrung or limited later science fiction. I think the most important thing those stories did was imagine a future where people had evolved beyond the failings that seem, from a 21st century…

Some of them are actually figuring it out. Thinking of Rand Paul specifically. Not necessarily because they aren’t racist, but because the situation is so egregious and obvious that it can’t be ignored anymore. That, and the people are starting to notice, really notice, and speak up.

Agreed. People are waking up. And that book has done a lot of good and exposed the belly of the beast in a way that made it clear and accessible. People knew what was going on, sure, but she articulated it so brilliantly.

Worth looking at Ursula Le Guin’s works. The Earthsea books - the first three anyways - are excellent and the primary characters are brown folks. She also wrote the Left Hand of Darkness, where the main character is a Black man. Now, none of these works explore the significance of the fact that these characters are…

Sadly, Australia might be even worse with respect to race relations, and POC have less of a voice there, less political power. Then again, it’s different. So there’s potentially some comfort in that.

Outstanding

I don’t disagree with you that the world would be a better place without these people, or more to the point, without people who believed things like this. Not at all. I disagree with what you said, not with your overall sentiment.

You’re a fucking idiot

How on earth is talking about his motives the same as apportioning blame? I don’t understand your logic here

I mean, that’s your opinion. I am just pointing out that at this stage, that’s not the accepted definition. I think the categories matter. It doesn’t make what he did any less terrible, it just means it’s categorized differently.

Is it just the people that hate you that you feel this way about, or all the people across the world who hate people that are different from them and work to oppress, restrict, other, and expel?

Do you apply this same logic to ignorant, uneducated, prejudiced folks in other countries and of other ethnicities, or only to the poor rural whites?

You’re correct, being baffled by nonsense is not the same as villifying something. It’s not nonsense though. It’s stream of consciousness narrative. I am going to assume that you, the writer, and the commenters that agree with this sentiment are unfamiliar with this delivery or the fact that it’s been a part of…

Actually an interception is not a complete pass. Not sure if you’re being witty and it went over my head, but the analogy is false: An own goal is still a goal. An interception is not a complete pass. It’s not, to be fair, an incomplete pass either. It’s an interception. You’re assuming a false dichotomy, that a pass…

Guessing you’re not a Tim Kaine fan?

Domestic terrorism still requires a political motivation. Now, there’s not a single definition of terrorism that all people and all countries and peoples accept. But the accepted definition of terrorism in academia and law enforcement, and the one you’ll get from Oxford, requires that there be a political or…

But here’s the thing: He did not profess allegiance to or seek to represent the ideology of any political group. He did send threatening text messages to his mother-in-law, who attended the church. He was thrown out of the army for spousal abuse. The reality is, there’s nothing about this that fits the definition of…

Theoretically, if you learned about the Abrahamic religions you should have learned a great deal about the Middle East, as they all share a common regional origin.

Almost entirely. Sikhs do not proselytize. All are welcome to join, but Sikhism is almost entirely coterminous with people of North Indian extraction, mostly from the Punjab - the geographic region, not just the Indian state of the same name. Sikhism is more than a religion, it’s tied to a specific ethnic and cultural…