Survivor bias.

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.