Call it "Politically Correk Trek"

Oh, what joy, the nerds of the world will have MORE "Star Trek" crap to buy. They can spend more of their time in their Trekkie pajamas, mass-debating over WHICH commander was better. They can take pride in pointing out technical faults the STUPID scriptwriter made ("Ha, you can't kill a Klingon with a gamma ray fired at 20 warp speed, when the C12-798-Fazer gun ONLY can fire in zero gravity at 19 warp speed! Gosh, why aren't I writing these scripts??")

The new Trek will have OBVIOUS ethnic and sexual and racial diversity. Wheee! As an astute blogger pointed out:

"How sad and pathetic that Gene Roddenberry’s original concept and casting which did the trick nicely with no shouting or complaining is now A BIG ISSUE some 50 years later..."

Right. The autistic retards and grumbly illiterate sexual and ethnic minorities of the 21st Century can't understand subtlety. What they want are cheap jokes and trite banter instead.

You can bet in this RE-BOOT, you could hear dialogue like:

"So, Sulu, how's that new BOYFRIEND?"

"He's a Klingon! He clings on nice and tight when I do him!"

"Har har! Nothing wrong with that! I'd like to try being bi sometime! But only with somebody of a different ethnic group and religion!"

ETC.

Let's also point out the glamorizing homosexuality is ridiculous. This is a minority of weirdos who think that another male's hairy ass and stinky sphincter are BEAUTIFUL. This is a minority that love the taste of semen, when most women don't even like it. And yet homos are stereotypically described as having great taste! Ooh, they know gourmet food, they know fine wine...and they spend an hour in a toilet at the Pleasuredome with mouth open and dozens of cocks jerking off into it.

Well, some people think that being whipped so hard that you bleed is a great sexual turn-on. How about we simply say, "To each his own," and not feel the need to insist fetishism and peculiar sexual acts are NORMAL and DESIRABLE?

Aside from the rotten acting and bad writing on these RE-BOOT SALES, there has to be the tiresome political correctness. It's all supposed to convince us that we're all equal? There's a horrible slanty sitcom called "Fresh off the Boat." It's supposedly a "milestone," in having an all Asian cast. What it has, is a bunch of pie-faced simps shouting sitcom insults at each other. Ah so, that's supposed to prove that Asian families are just like every other family.

There was a time when viewers enjoyed visiting families because they were FUNNY, period. City people could watch "The Real McCoys" or "The Beverly Hillbillies," and hillbillies could watch "All in the Family" or even "Seinfeld."

"Seinfeld" memorably juggled the issue of being PC by using the catch-phrase, "NOT that there's anything WRONG WITH THAT," anytime there was a gay reference.

As for "All in the Family," it was considered truly revolutionary at the time. Never mind that it was actually a steal from a British sitcom. A bit embarrassing that the Brits were once again ahead of the Americans??

Sadly, just as the British version had its inane censorship ("silly moo" instead of "silly cow" -- Jesus fuckin' Christ) "All in the Family" was carefully watered down. Archie Bunker's epithet for his wife was not "Dumb Bitch" but "Dingbat," a word almost never used by ANYONE of ANY AGE in the 70's. Likewise, Archie didn't call Jews "kikes." They were "Hebes." Puerto Ricans, at best, were "PR's" and not "Spics," and the blacks were, of course, merely "coloreds," with a very early reference to "jungle bunnies."

As it was, the show received as much rage as it did praise, with many insisting there could be no such thing as a "lovable bigot." No doubt if Archie Bunker did use the more familiar ignorant terms for blacks (even the more common "monkeys" or "spades" as opposed to the absolutely hateful "niggers") the laugh track would've had to have been used constantly and at high volume, instead of relying on the chuckles from the live audience.

A peculiar thing about "politically correct" is that it varies. At one time, "Amos and Andy" was a beloved show. Tim Moore made "Kingfish" a brilliant comic character, imitated with fondness by everyone from Dean Martin to Johnny Carson. Then it got banned in the late 60's. But...curiously, the very same stereotypes of "ignorant coloreds" emerged in the 70's with "Sanford and Son" (based on a British sitcom, of course) and "Good Times" and others. Ridiculous black characters on those shows were drawling "Dyn-o-mite" and "Watch it SUCKA," and acting ignorant and low class, and that was ok. "Amos and Andy" was not.

Ironically, as the new heavily ethnic black sitcoms became popular, many recalled "Amos and Andy" fondly, especially black comedians. A TV special hosted by black comic George Kirby explored the "controversy," with many blacks saying the TV show was just fine, but the radio version (with Amos and Andy portrayed by whites) was offensive. To this day, the TV series exists only via bootleg DVD collections and isn't streaming anywhere.

One last point. It's nice to think that Spike Milligan's "Curry and Chips" or Carroll O'Connor's "All in the Family" or Barry Evans' "Mind Your Language" were poking fun at bigotry, but guess what. Even if they weren't, that's OK, too. Really. Because comedy is a safety valve. Telling a "sick joke" or indulging in "gallows humor" is a way of coping.

Ethnic humor can also force change. What Italian, after hearing Chico Marx, what Russian, after hearing radio's "Mad Russian" Bert Gordon, what Jew, after hearing radio's wimpy "Mr. Kitzel" on the Jack Benny show, and what black, after hearing "The Two Black Crows" 78rpm records, wanted to sound like that? For that matter, what woman wanted to identify with dumb cunts like Gracie Allen with her dizzy stupidity or even Lucille Ball with her childishness and out-loud bawling? Comedians today have been denied some of the best weapons of their craft, and the result is a sad lack of FUNNY. What's safe? Fart jokes? Not really: "Dear Sir, hundreds of thousands have celiac disease, or gastric bypass surgery, and it's hurtful and mean to make fun of sufferers who regularly flatulate...."

One of the few places left for "bad taste" humor is the celebrity roast. Still a regular feature on cable TV, stars from William Shatner to Justin Fuckhead Bieber have volunteered to sit and be insulted. Why? It's good to stop taking yourself so fucking seriously. Humor levels everyone and there are even religious jokes that point out that nothing's sacred.

Heard any good Muslim jokes lately? Don't we need some?