I love how a white television actor kissed a Black woman to collect a paycheck once and now his stans think he's the Rev. Al Sharpton
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I know the rules are different for cishet white guys but usually when a person lives a very long time, we expect them to do more than rest on the laurels of a thing they did fifty years ago
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Also, in context, the scene is of the two of them being MIND-CONTROLLED into kissing each other as a HORRIBLE VIOLATION by evil aliens The whole lead-up to it is them struggling desperately to keep it from happening
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I mean it's a kink thing, they start talking about how the alien mind control is tapping into the real repressed feelings they've had for each other etc, it's all very Tumblr slashfic But you know, like slashfic, the point is approaching the attraction as forbidden and taboo
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It's gross Also Gene revealed that they didn't get any of the angry letters from Southern viewers he was expecting, and instead got one fan letter from a creepy old white guy talking about how his mother wouldn't approve of that scene but old Kirk was a lucky bastard
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Like let's be fucking blunt "interracial kissing" wasn't a taboo in that sense in the South It was taboo to *talk about it* but white guys did it *all the time*, often nonconsensually The South wouldn't look the way it does if they didn't
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Real courage would've been to show a Black man kissing a white woman, and to do so in a purely positive, affirming context Which they couldn't do, since for one thing they didn't have any Black men in the main cast
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Decades later, Star Trek TNG would have a relationship between a Black man and a white woman, and they'd do it by making the Black guy a creepy stalker who makes a holographic girlfriend out of the white woman without her consent
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That said, they didn't actually seem to think Geordi did anything wrong, and that what he did to Leah Brahms was endearing and romantic, and then they get married in the future This is actually worse LeVar Burton was not a fan
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Well Worf and K'ehleyr are also an interracial relationship (Michael Dorn is Black and Suzie Plakson is white), although the Klingon makeup tends to keep people from picking up on that
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And Klingons might not have a concept of race analogous to the way humans do?
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