There are plenty of old episodes that would embarass modern Trek with being progressive since they didn’t make it an overt declaration (tell the audience), but showed why the bigoted view was bad. Whereas new Trek loves to just… declare the progressive view as good

Are you for real?

This was triumph

Wouldn’t plastic handle the shock better?

The third expressed his views, in which he said “I hate them”, referring to “misogynists and homophobes”, adding an expletive.

That’s what would’ve gotten him arrested.

I’ll believe it when I see it.

I love that this is a detail the set designer did expecting it to go unnoticed, that’s a level of passion for sure.

How long do I have to wait for it?

Make sure you confuse them though, give notes calling old grannies great fathers and fathers letters about the joy of child birth.

You’re expecting common sense from the religious. They already believe in imaginary beings that rule the universe, good luck trying to convince them of reality.

Oh no, these countries wanna be less dependent on the US? Better try and bully them with what little leverage we got left, great plan. Honestly, if he actually does it and it screws over the economy, maybe people will finally wake up and do something about him.

It’s a taxi and the back door is open in the last panel, he didn’t even drive.

Granted, the slurs are now far more hurtful to you when you hear them due to their high quality.