Googling around, I’ve seen a lot of users and journos claiming they are a jewish stereotype. I struggled to even compare them to what HP did. And as a partially jew, I’m really jealous of qualities these bigots paint and the thinking process Quark put to work. He’s probably my favorite character of the whole franchise.

  • vithigar@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    …is there some reason you didn’t point out that I forgot the episode rather than leading on by saying similar arguments could be made about the goblins? Or was the “similar thing” you were talking about the fact that anyone can just say “I don’t remember”?

    So yes, in one episode Ishka appears naked, appropriately covered for broadcast TV of course. And the entire point of that episode was that Ferengi traditions surrounding women were discriminatory, old fashioned, and should not be accepted.

    Also, Lwaxana isn’t Ferengi, so I’m not sure how she’s relevant here.

    Yet it’s ok when the Ferengi are doing it because it’s an “alien” culture that someone invented out of thin air.

    It wasn’t okay. That was literally the point.