Meant to post this in main star trek community, not ten forward, d’oh.
If this is the wrong place for this, I apologize in advance and it’s okay if it gets removed.
First, it was bad enough for Elon Musk references, but now…
The real life Paul Stamets, for which the character is named, hired union busters at his business, Fungi Perfecti.
https://www.thestand.org/2024/05/fungi-perfecti-workers-joining-together-with-liuna-252/
But rather than recognizing and respecting these workers’ right to join together free from management interference, the union reports that Fungi Perfecti has responded by hiring the union-busting firms of Littler Mendelson P.C. and the American Labor Group. These firms represent clients such as Amazon, Apple, Google, and Starbucks, all of which have faced multiple Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charges with the National Labor Relations Board for illegally interfering in their employees’ freedom to unionize.
These firms have attempted to slow the momentum of Fungi Perfecti workers’ organizing drive with typical union-busting tactics like “unrequired” meetings that are heavily encouraged.
“ALG has been distributing anti-union propaganda that, in some cases, are outright lies,” said Derek Sewell, a warehouse worker for Fungi Perfecti. “But we will not be discouraged. It’s just unfortunate that they are spending thousands of dollars on union-busting to try to discourage us rather than investing in making Fungi Perfecti and better and more sustainable place to work.”
Anyway, my opinion is firmly that if they’re going to make references, it needs to be about people who are already dead, whose negatives are known, and who can’t come back and fuck your reference up by becoming a horrible person as your life goes on.
Because these living people keep revealing how Un-Star-Trek they are, imho.
https://www.thelist.com/1525436/whoopi-goldberg-most-controversial-moments/
TL;Dr she’s old and rich so problems that don’t happen to her don’t matter
Those issues are all fairly mild IMO
Defending Bill Cosby is mild to you?
She didn’t defend him, and actually did a 180 once proof came out.
Precisely. Thats character growth ffs
No, see, you’re not allowed to do takesies backsies. Once you screw up (or people think you did) you’re canceled forever.
/s needed because some people actually think this way
When a black person does it? Yes. It’s understandable. Just like with OJ.
Lemmy gets mad about the “two tiered” justice system but black folks are more than familiar with the reality that even wealth and celebrity won’t protect them, much less innocence, and white America is more than happy to assume guilt on the part of black celebrities while there’s no shortage of eager defenders of your Weinstein types.
That doesn’t make it good, or right, but centuries of mistreatment by the justice system doesn’t tend to produce a lot of trust in that system. It just produces cynicism, deserved or otherwise.
I’ve never heard anyone defend Weinstein…
I’ve seen people do it on Lemmy lol
“Convicted in the press blah blah blah”
Uh, my dude, literally the entire industry knew about him for decades before anybody managed to take him down, and they all did nothing. In their inaction they further hurt his victims, and allowed him to victimize others while they looked the other way. That’s just as bad if not worse.