To quote Abe Simpson 'I was with it then they changed what it was'.
If you live long enough you will reach a point where the next generation or the one after that makes no sense to you. Even Noam Chomsky ended up that way though to be fair it took him 91 years to do it so that's an achievement in itself.
This episode attempts to parody 'woke' ideas and politics but does so from a position of someone who simply does not get why it exists or what young people are now trying to achieve.
Putting in a joke about young people being unable to contemplate outdated and unfashionable ideas without experiencing trauma is both ignorant and patronising.
I appreciate that the script writers also attempted to poke fun at the powerful but the whole episode came across and both smug and lazy.
If you live long enough you will reach a point where the next generation or the one after that makes no sense to you. Even Noam Chomsky ended up that way though to be fair it took him 91 years to do it so that's an achievement in itself.
This episode attempts to parody 'woke' ideas and politics but does so from a position of someone who simply does not get why it exists or what young people are now trying to achieve.
Putting in a joke about young people being unable to contemplate outdated and unfashionable ideas without experiencing trauma is both ignorant and patronising.
I appreciate that the script writers also attempted to poke fun at the powerful but the whole episode came across and both smug and lazy.