The Borg = White People


I think the borg are meant to represent white people coming in from europe with advanced technology and wiping out the existing culture, forcing them to adapt and assimilate

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The Borg were intended to represent an analogy technology taking over causing people to stop thinking for themselves.

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That's obvious to anybody who isn't trying to (a) slap their social justice warrior templates all over everything, regardless of applicability, and/or (b) troll people.

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There are people today (transhumanists) who have had tech embedded in their bodies. Work is being done for smartphone & internet connections embedded in the skull. And plenty of people would eagerly pay plenty of money for that sort of technological enhancement, too. Is our digital world the untold origin story of the Borg?

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You should get out of the business of thinking.

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Bahahahahahahaha!

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I think you're being generous. To me, that didn't really qualify as "thinking".

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White with technology trying to wipe out the other white people with technology: Star Fleet?

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Star Fleet doesn’t represent whites because most members of the federation are good moral people.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MlJdPOkMa9k

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Even the white ones?

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They’ve just been bleached. They’re not actually white.

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Why? Those people want to be white?

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They had Michael-Jackson-Syndrome.

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Yes, I get it. It is fashionable to hate whitey.

As soon as one starts to argue facts with you, you run and fucking hide.

So fuck off idiot.

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which facts have been argued?

it is fashionable to hate the whitey because white people did some bad moves in the past, just like the borg

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> it is fashionable to hate the whitey because white people did some bad moves in the past

The indigenous American Indian tribes fought among themselves for territory, slaves and, how shall say it, breeding stock. It’s not as if they occupied some higher moral plane than the European settlers.

As others have said, I think the Borg are meant to meant to be an analogue for collectivism.

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Are you sure thats not just something that white people said 20-50 years later or even during it to make themselves feel better?

it would be like the 17th century equivalent of how George W Bush and his team created the story that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction and needed to be stopped

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A few months back I read a book from a famous anthropologist who is also of a artistic bent, making for a fine writer.

In the mid 1960's he traveled to Australia where he did research on the Aboriginal population. He noted that they were first class trackers. On one contact, the white settlers had to travel a great distance to meet a remote tribe. After they left, some members of the tribe decided to track the white man to his original settlement. They walked for days but finally were able to locate the new city. The Aboriginal men were enthralled with the town and never went back.

Western culture is so enticing because at it's heart is freedom and capitalism, which excells at making things to help ease some of the drudgery of life.

I do share your concern that some of the interesting aspects of diversity of cultures has been diluted because of it.

I always thought of the Borg as Jeff Bezos (creator of Amazon)😀 which is ironic because his hero is Capt Picard.

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Interesting read.

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Loren Eiseley collected essays vol II

Not heavy on science, mostly collected memories from his life's work as a anthropologist.

A very interesting point of view on the human race.

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I'll check it out.

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Star Trek would have been more interesting if the alien races were played by separate human races.
Humans - Europeans; Vulcans/Romulans - Korean/Japanese; Klingons - Africans or Arabs.

Of course Roddenberry would never do that, preferring multicultural Earth hippy crap.

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I think the show's white writers would be VERY surprised to find out that's what they intended.

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no im confident this is what they intended, especially when whoopi goldberg signed on for star trek with her backstory and them finding out that it meant a lot to black people to see uhura on the ship

around that time they had the guinan character talk about slavery and then she was the one who described how the borg came and scattered her people throughout the universe, so i think the writers were making a point that this is what it would have felt like from the native american/african/aboriginal australian point of view where they have a certain lifestyle and it is crushed by a more advanced group who dont care about anything that they do, they are just trying to install their culture

the borg are also pale as fuck, so that could be another clue

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Actually, they represent socialism/communism and collectivism, if you want to get technical. That, and they proved a lot scarier than the Ferengi back when TNG was being made and became the Big Baddies of Star Trek.

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no that is just another theory

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And yet your racist one holds more weight?

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wow there is no need to bring in the R word here, you should apologise for this move, but yes my one holds more weight

ok how about the borg are white commies?

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I still haven't heard your apology about white Europeans. I take it you're not white yourself, or you wouldn't have brought up the race issue in the first place. And by the way, you don't have to be white to be a communist; just look at China and Cuba.

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i might be white but i take it everybody who online bullied me in this thread is definitely white because they denied that white europeans were the borg of earth for centuries

these days you cant talk about anything without people bringing up the racist card

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THe Borg are black They have to steal other cultures technology

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Where do you get those wonderful drugs?

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Yeah you're right, the Ferengi were supposed to be the bad guys but people found then funny, not scary. Smart move though. Borg are way more intimadating.

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