"when I'm in this idiom I sometimes get a bit, sort of, carried away, you know"
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Spoilert for the first player character's bestie in Weird West
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While social justice warriors can be infuriating, they're often also unintentionally hilarious in, as I've so often noted here, tripping over their own propaganda. Weird West, as I predicted, does try to temper its rah-rah girl power, racial minorities rah-rah initial presentation after a bit (via some grimdark edge) but doesn't quite stick the landing:
Maybe the best way to help women as legitimate figures of authority or blacks as... just, y'know, people... isn't to draw, in a single paragraph, an explicit and direct comparison to CANNIBALISTIC MONSTERS LURKING IN OUR MIDST ! Where did you get this, out of some 1950s space invader allegory about the subversive red menace? Because you might've misunderstood those movies' political stance on the menace.
Shit like this is why so many people's reaction to social activism on their behalf rapidly sinks from
'The cavalry has arrived, huzzah!'
to
'Please stop helping!'
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P.S.: Attentive comic book fans might notice this is an old issue, most glaringly noted in The X-Men, which has tried for sixty years to equate its "mutant rights" with real-world minority movements, while at the same time demonstrating, issue after issue, the seemingly endless destruction caused by mutants. In this case, BROWN SKIN DOESN'T EAT PEOPLE, nor raise the question of what'll happen whenever you run out of helplessly incarcerated criminals to summarily execute to your own appetite. Last time I checked, weren't prisoner rights and fair trials a black American issue too?
It's not that you can't fit such elements into the same story, or hell, even combine them purposefully as provocation, be the gadfly and all that, if you'd displayed any awareness of what you were doing, if you were at least deliberately offensive. (Hell, I've done it m'self.) But tone-deaf lumping as many gimmicks as possible for attention does no-one any good, least of all yourselves as storytellers.
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