I love science fiction; I've been watching Voyager off and on for a while now. Season 4 episode 17, "Retrospect," would absolutely never be written today. But it's great. A lot of progressives today hate this episode.

Brief synopsis: A member of the crew accuses an alien merchant of attacking her. The captain insists on investigating fully, getting the entire story from everyone involved, including the accused. The accused insists that even the accusations will ruin his life. At first, evidence suggests he is guilty, and he flees when they try to take him into custody. Then closer inspection of the evidence proves that the crewmember was mistaken and he was innocent. When they try to catch him and tell him they're sorry, they were mistaken, he commits suicide, because his career and life are over.

-It's a pretty thinly-veiled allegory for the importance of due process even in cases of sexual assault. Barely even a veil, honestly.

-The only reason they could even do it back then (aired in 1998), I bet, was because the captain was female, too. But her approach was faultless: she wanted all the information, and she insisted on investigation of the scene and interviews with everyone before blindly believing either party.

-True to his word, the accused man was ruined by even the accusation of assault.

-The accuser (who had acted in good faith; her memories had been fractured) was furious and called for the accused to suffer. But in the end, when she realized that her mistake, despite being honest, led to the death of an innocent man, she felt deeply remorseful.

TL;DR

Back in 1998, Star Trek Voyager was surprisingly based, whether they knew it or not.

I love cooking, and I love their recipes, so I've been keeping an eye on this. And it's been quite a show.

--After a photo of him in a costume pretending to be a Puerto Rican stereotype came out, the (white) editor-in-chief has resigned. Photo is 7 years old. Apparently he doesn't have the Trudeau dispensation for brownface.

--Then some tweets/text messages from the director of video using "homophobic" and "racially insensitive" language were leaked - ope, he's resigned, too. I read those. Nothing shocking. But keep in mind, he's white, too.

--THEN it came out that when he was, like, 18, the drinks editor made edgy jokes. OH NO. Mind you, he's very liberal and has donated to SJW causes, but I guess he can never be forgiven. And yes, he's white, too.

--And apparently we're also supposed to be offended that their most popular chefs are white, because white is bad. Although, isn't that the audience's fault, that the white chefs' youtube vids have more views?

Now it seems to be open season for anyone who ever failed to succeed there to scream RACISM. After getting a polite, professional email (sent to white people too) reminding staffers that the kitchen is a busy workspace and please don't congregate there to talk, multiple young non-white female staffers went and cried in the bathroom, I assume because they're strong independent women. One Asian-American editor complained in a post that in three years, she's never gotten a raise. But she never asked for one. So that's also white people's fault, I guess. They are simultaneously demanding more non-white workers there, and complaining about "tokenism." I have bad news for you, friends.

I don't doubt there are some assholes there, and they obviously have the right to run things as they see fit. But wow, it's amusing watching them all eat each other alive, now that what always seemed like such a harmonious kitchen environment is in flames.

I realize very few people will find this as interesting as I do.

TL;DR - no matter how woke you are, you're not woke enough.

It was savvy people on the internet siding with truth and justice that got Eric "Bike Lock" Clanton arrested. If it's possible, I hope some of these disgusting rioters get the same treatment for the crimes they've committed.