Dare ObasanjoMar 31, 2024
Whenever people complain about their favorite intellectual property from their childhood becoming “woke” it’s usually because it simply went over their heads as kids.
Show threadMatt McIrvinMar 31, 2024

@carnage4life I think that for many conservatives it's because they have a static idea of the "just right" amount of progressivism: that e.g. the civil-rights movement of the 1950s-60s was good, but at some point all the real problems were fixed and to go further is just going too far.

So it's OK for 1960s Star Trek to make episodes attacking racism, but for modern Star Trek to make episodes attacking transphobia is bad "woke".

I think that among conservatives this is a common feeling, and the point they identify as "just right" is invariably either in their own childhoods or a point just prior to their birth.

Show threadMatt McIrvin
@carnage4life Of course, their intellectual counterparts in the 1960s *hated* the civil-rights movement and identified the "just right" point as much further back, maybe before the world wars. But this is the way conservatism works.
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