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Some of the clear-headed and constant critics of the rising criminality of the American proper isn’t a journalist for a paper of report or well-regarded information group, however former Star Trek star George Takei. The actor has not been shying away from elevating his voice on quite a few urgent political points, whether or not it’s boycotting Marjorie Taylor Greene’s controversial TV look or education bigots spewing their non-sensical anti-LGBTQ+ views. The newest topic of Takei’s brutally sincere takes is Justice Clarence Thomas who’s at the moment dealing with a wave of corruption allegations.
Takei has beforehand commented on the unsurprising information that Justice Clarence Thomas didn’t disclose quite a few extremely costly items from Republican donor and billionaire Harlan Crow. These presents included rides on Crow’s non-public jet, unique holidays value lots of of hundreds of {dollars}, and even a bronze statue of one in every of Thomas’s favourite lecturers. So, simply common decide stuff.
Whereas the allegations in opposition to Thomas are being debated, Takei has subtly taunted what future would have awaited the decide had he been residing on this planet of Star Trek.
When Starfleet decide advocate generals take any interstellar voyages on the dime of the Ferengi, they at all times report them to command.
Simply saying.
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) April 8, 2023
Whereas Takei has posted extra critical takes about all of this corruption, and the well-founded accusations in opposition to Thomas are extremely troubling, the person who performed Sulu has additionally put his criticisms into extra tongue and cheek phrases, making them extra related to the present that made him well-known. In fact, the Star Trek universe has at all times had an ethical and progressive soul, from Uhura and Kirk’s well-known interracial kiss to the introduction of a non-binary character within the third season of Star Trek: Discovery, so it is sensible that it really works properly as a framework to criticize the present state of American politics, which is rising extra polarized, hateful, and pushed by darkish cash by the day.
Clearly, these within the feedback couldn’t assist seconding and even including to the actor’s justified musings.
If the actual world was extra like Star Trek, it might be a a lot better place.
— Struggle for Justice–#SheWon (@rhorseranch_joy) April 8, 2023
Followers have responded properly to this reframing of the problem, chiming in with their very own opinions about what would occur to somebody with as a lot energy as Thomas in the event that they behaved this manner in Star Trek. And, frankly, it’s very arduous to disagree with what they’re saying.
So does that imply we will banish Clarence Thomas to Rura Penthe?
— Marc Of Excellence 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@Marc_Kenyon) April 8, 2023
Some followers advocated sending the corrupt decide to Rura Penthe, the well-known Klingon penal colony additionally generally generally known as “the alien’s graveyard.” Others went for extra humorous ideas, together with sending Thomas to the pleasure planet Risa simply to get him out of our collective hair — one thing Choose Thomas in all probability wouldn’t argue in opposition to based mostly on the allegations leveled in opposition to him by his ex-girlfriend.
Simply ship him to Risa . We’d by no means hear from him once more.
— Chris Royster (@CartoonChris) April 8, 2023
A couple of followers even in contrast Thomas unfavorably to the Ferengi, who had been famously misogynistic, profit-driven, and fully shameless. A reasonably related criticism, all issues thought-about.
The Ferengi are extra honorable than Clarence Thomas.
— Skittlez with a Z (@OfSkittlez) April 8, 2023
Whereas we’re but to see if Thomas will truly face any censuring for his blatantly unethical habits, we will at the least hope that in a wierd new world someplace, conservatives would have gone the place no conservative has gone earlier than and put integrity over social gathering politics. Possibly sooner or later it’ll occur right here, too.