Basically it's the "some of my best friends are X" excuse but more narcissistic. So, it's basically the "some of my best selves are X" excuse.

Bear in mind that he’s still forbidden from entering the United States, where those job offers were. I had considered the angle of pandering to the Right to make himself a cause to get that rescinded by the Trump administration, but then he pulled back on that, and I don’t know what to think.

Get some meds, bro.

Yeah, what's up with that? I mean, Kirk was a misogynist asshole, but TNG was fairly progressive... as long as you overlook Deanna Troi and her Cleavage of Doom (tm).

Kirk was a representation of divine rule.

i wonder if they've done a study on the comorbidity of owning a replica phaser and pedophilia

Yeah, I love Star Trek but Gene Roddenberry was a dogshit human being who sexually harassed/abused cast members and wrote sexist scripts. That Black Mirror episode was dead on when it comes to some Star Trek fans.

I've also noticed that there's a contingent among people who love old film, music and other media who think everything was better back then and hate the cultural change we've had in the last decade or two.

it's funny regarding gene's bad behavior, i just watched the "toys that made us" episode on star trek and it was nothing but praise for his progressive values

i get it's a lighthearted program but if you're gonna stress his moral compass you may want to just stay vague on the subject at most

For me it was Kevin Spacey

His desire to get a rise out of oversensitive liberals will be responsible for him losing his platform altogether. He has NO idea how bad this is for him. Disney will cut him off and no one will hire him. So he wanted to get to people so that he could feel smug not letting anything get to him and now he's going to lose everything and he'll probably wind up letting everything get to him.