Honestly I think the difference perceived by the “too woke” brigade is that a lot of the older storylines featured what felt like exceptions to the norm. Smaller instances of people being accepting. An example might be a trans person existing was a whole storyline usually with a gimmick rather than just a given that was treated as the norm that requires no explanation. Individuals being chill very rarely is their problem. It’s when someone tries to get them to change their ways and accept something as “normal” that they go bonkers
But yeah… Woke is such a non term referring to any cultural advancement of acceptance at scale that of course Star Trek was always “woke” it was culturally transformative and minority aware from the beginning
that conservative version of woke is very different from the historical meaning. they co-opted it and bastardize to say the “n” word without actually saying it, basically they are too chicken to say the actual N word outloud.
Honestly I think the difference perceived by the “too woke” brigade is that a lot of the older storylines featured what felt like exceptions to the norm. Smaller instances of people being accepting. An example might be a trans person existing was a whole storyline usually with a gimmick rather than just a given that was treated as the norm that requires no explanation. Individuals being chill very rarely is their problem. It’s when someone tries to get them to change their ways and accept something as “normal” that they go bonkers
But yeah… Woke is such a non term referring to any cultural advancement of acceptance at scale that of course Star Trek was always “woke” it was culturally transformative and minority aware from the beginning
that conservative version of woke is very different from the historical meaning. they co-opted it and bastardize to say the “n” word without actually saying it, basically they are too chicken to say the actual N word outloud.