this post was submitted on 24 May 2024
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Perpetually confused white guy is not Doctor Twink? I'm stuck on this one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

O'Brien is what I thought of.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Bashir is #FFFFFF compared to O'Brien. The Irish working class guy is whiter than the genetically engineered Oxbridge English guy? I don't think this has been thought through.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know we're talking about characters, but Bashir's actor was born in Sudan, is half Sudanese, and his birth name is "Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abdurrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi" as an FYI.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes but there's skin white and then there's state of mind white. Irish and Italians for example weren't in the "white" club until relatively recently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Haha. You aren't wrong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

... Bashir is clearly intended to be of middle eastern or perhaps Indian descent, somewhat obvious from the actor. And the episode with his parents, also both clearly not white.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

He was genetically engineered because his parents were working class and were worried that their kid would be too dumb for even that. He's not exactly high society.