Comment on Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth”
Solumbran@lemmy.world 1 week agoClothes very similar to the stereotypical “african clothes”, they have dark skin and it is a core part of their identity, they got the actor of Tyler as a way to have an “exotic” accent, they also made them cannibals, with weird voodoo religious rituals with suggested (even if not so simple) rape, and if I’m not mistaken they commit terrorist suicide attacks as well.
They feel like a concentrated mix of the racist ideas gathered over the past 200 years, and are used to show that they are scary. Or to make it more obvious, they are shown like “exotic brown people who hate the white ones, and just want to eat them, rape them, and suicide on them to mass murder civilians to instill fear”.
I’m not the only one who noticed that but I really can’t understand how anyone can not see it.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 1 week ago
Could you expand on that, ideally with pictures of what you’re talking about? L’Rell’s outfit, for example, hardly screams “Africa” to me.
“Exotic” meaning what? Which race is he mimicking?
I know very little about the Voodoo religion, so could you please tell me which of its rituals were incorporated into the show?
And this is a known thing racist trope about Africans (since you seem to have settled on African, or at least “Black” stereotypes)? Because otherwise, you seem to be saying it’s a racist depiction of…a bunch of different races, based on the fact that the characters do things that humans also do sometimes.
“Brown”
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