True, true.
The one that is particularly getting my goat nowadays is the one where they assume their lived experience is what everyone experiences.
It’s so obviously a sign of privilege. I’ve never ever seen, heard, or read a Black woman or man claiming that their experience is universal. Yet countless white men (and to a lesser extent, upper-middle and upper-class white women) will claim that theirs are.
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I’m sure we all have stories!
One of my most recent, I was with a group of friends and we were talking about travel adventures. I was sharing about traveling around Tunisia as a solo white woman in her mid-twenties, and how sometimes it got really sketchy. Groups of men would start following me down the streets, licking their lips and making lascivious comments. My friend’s husband, a 6’5” white guy, said, “but it’s not really scary, or dangerous.”
Since I like his wife, I kindly reminded him that the way he experiences the world, given his “user interface,” is very different than how I did, or others do.
He kind of seemed to get it. But it’s perpetually annoying that we have to be so understanding and explain this shit when it seems if anyone challenges their world view the response is angry defensiveness.
Would that I could give my id such free reign and still be treated with such gentle understanding. 
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Wait… He left out Geordi La Forge!!! For realz!?! What in the actual racist fuck?
Although, honestly, it is a close tie between Geordi and Miles…
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This is just a corollary to the “women can’t be trusted to be objective on women’s issues/ gays on gay issues/ Blacks on Black issues/ etc” rule. Only white men are objective, since their lived experience is the One And Only True Lived Experience ™ . All others are just deviations from the norm, and not to be trusted.
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Is this racist? B’Elanna’s in the list.
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It’s erasure, at the very least.
That B’Elanna is in there doesn’t mean that the POV presented isn’t racially biased.
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True, but it also doesn’t mean that the POV presented is racially biased. They could have just forgotten him.
Yes, let’s keep giving people who do racist shit a pass, because they might not have MEANT to be racist, and that’s what REALLY counts… /s
LaForge was on the second most popular Trek series… ignoring him is a big deal, and I can’t see any other reason that a racial blind spot. He may not have MEANT to be racist, but his actions sure as fuck were.
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Considering that fish don’t see water, I’m not gonna go down that road with you.
The likelihood that ingrained racial bias was a factor is high, even if the omission itself was unintentional.
And frankly, if dude forgot about Geordi La Forge, then he’s a piss poor excuse for a Star Trek fan, period.
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Would that it were so where the wealthy weren’t allowed to have opinions or vote on tax cuts for the wealthy!
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Age of poster? Next Gen finished nearly 30 years ago.
Something we can agree on.
Not a good excuse.
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So it’s not intentional racism. Just racism.
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Ah, but the rule is not “X cannot be trusted with Xish issues,” it is that only rich white men can be trusted. Period. So, yeah…
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