Anyone holding onto the shibboleth that the Critical Drinker is part of the 'alt-right to fascist pipeline' - as someone here tried to tell me a few months back - needs to watch his latest video on the irrelevance of contemporary Star Trek. Where he specifically praises the role of characters like Uhuru, LaForge and Sisko as inspiring young people of colour to pursue STEM or leadership careers.
If that's subtle white supremacy folks, it's pretty goddamn subtle.
"[In Falling Down] Bill... represents every person who ever fell down and couldn't get back up again. Every person who followed the rules and did what everyone expected, and got punished for it. Who did everything right and still got screwed over by a system that was stacked against them.
Who spent their entire life striving for something better, only to discover that they were 'not economically viable'."
#TheCriticalDrinker, 2024
I just noticed that The Critical Drinker is now publishing videos on PeerTube as well as Goggle's ThemTube;
https://review.peertube.biz/c/criticaldrinker/
Sign of the times?
FYI I like watching the drinker's videos for the same reason I like watching stand up by Jimmy Carr or Ricky Gervais; I want to be used to hearing opinions I disagree with, especially when its ok to laugh at them. Also, I might occasionally learn something (even a stopped clock is right twice a day, as they say).
"... the boys pointing out that they've got no problem whatsoever with a character like Miles Morales, who was created with his own unique personality and backstory. Instead of just being a lazy race-swap of an existing character. Hammering home the simple but often misunderstood point, that well-written characters who happen to be diverse are a perfectly good thing, that no reasonable person can object to."
#TheCriticalDrinker, Oct 2023
"...I don't doubt for a second that there are some genuinely shitty individuals out there, and they should rightly be called out for their bigotry."
