Imagine if DS9 premiered in this day and age; Black "DEI" captain, "Transgender" Alien, "FEEMALE" Major, Arab doctor, "woke politics" about an occupation ending, we'd never hear the end of it
Not really. Star Trek's always been way ahead when it comes to inclusion. Everything else in the 90s was the same homophobic, backwards crap. Except maybe Jim Henson's Dinosaurs
4chan and the larger gamergate movement took the racism that was still bubbling under the surface of america and sucked it up with a big novelty drink straw back into the forefront of polite society where now it's socially acceptable to say you hate black people, oh I'm sorry "woke", can't say outright you hate black people jusssssssst yet ;)
They don't hate minorities yet mysteriously they just happen to brand every game that has prominent not-white, not-straight characters as "woke DEI Sweet Baby Inc Cultural Bolshevism Marxism."
I've been saying this for a while now, but if Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat were released today, g*mers would have a shit fit. Oh wait that did actually happen lel 🤣
Dukat's actor went out of his way to voluntarily and personally address the fandom at the time and tell them in an open letter "GUL DUKAT IS THE BAD GUY. STOP MAKING EXCUSES FOR MY CHARACTER."
Now there'd be Youtube videos saying "GUL DUKAT CUCKED BY DEI?!"