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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 7953747" data-attributes="member: 4348">I understand some of that (and have defended Kennedy against attacks in some instances).  I was unaware of Leslie Jones having it occur (but will look it up) and find that reprehensible.I tried to explain above though that the way the term has evolved over the past two years has changed what the term is used as.  Today, beginning with how it was utilize as a weapon against woman and minorities incorrectly, it has devolved to mean something very different than what some assume it means.  Many who use it are not even women or minorities, but white males trying to write off criticism towards things they've made...and use it regardless of who they are talking too (if they are even aware of the race or gender of who they are talking to). It is, quite frankly, used as an insult to brush off people that one does not want to listen to these days.  This is why we see explosions of furious commentary that may or may not be well thought out after it's usage.  Just like I exploded, that is minor compared to how many others react when it is used.  It causes smaller criticism that is more acceptable into an explosion of being critical just to BE critical.  Instead of calming people, it causes them to become even MORE critical.  As I have pointed out, I haven't been privy to this in regards to Star Trek Picard yet.  As such, perhaps I am in the dark about it.  I think the producers have avoided this type of situation with Star Trek thus far and thus it has kept a lot of the more nonsense and less useful criticisms refrained in the small corners of the internet they derive from.  On the otherhand, I think they took a LOT of the criticisms of the first season of Star Trek Discovery and taking it constructively to build up Star Trek in areas where they felt it would appeal to fans (perhaps not the most angry fans, but to many who had criticisms of STD S1, but were reasonable or more reasonable about what and why they were unhappy or what changes they would have made).</blockquote>

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