Supergirl [6x12] "Blind Spots" Post Episode Discussion

[u/MajorParadox]

Blind Spots

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Nxyly attempts to reunite the Allstone using Mxyzptlk as a power source. Meanwhile, Lena finds out the truth about her mother. (September 21, 2021)

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[u/Aurondarklord]

The moral logic of this episode was just...insane.

Nyxly is a world-ending threat. If she gets her full power and her macguffin...boom, that's it for life on Earth and maybe beyond that.

Nyxly winning is curtains for everyone, black, white, or fucking purple.

So if you have to choose between saving a small number of otherwise overlooked people, and saving everyone, which includes those people, you save everyone. If you fail to stop Nyxly, they die whether you fixed the political issues holding them down or not.

This is always an issue with "street-level hero lambastes cosmic-scale hero for just not getting it" stories, but this was an especially heavy-handed example. It's this all over again, and again ignoring that if the Green Lantern stops an alien invasion coming to destroy the Earth, he's saving the "black skins" too.

having to put the big picture, which includes all of the little pictures, first isn't the same thing as not caring about the little pictures, or not seeing the issues of minorities.

It's just not wanting the world to end and everyone to die.

[u/[deleted] → u/Aurondarklord]

See it could have worked if Kelly understood that Kara can't be everywhere at the same time. And so she could have chosen to become guardian to bring that hope and help to the underserved. It would have shown Kara's legacy and Kelly would have become Guardian too. But nah, gotta shame Kara (and the SF) first.

[u/Aurondarklord → u/[deleted]]

I'm Jewish. It ain't that different. I would have thought this writing was ridiculous if it was "how dare you try to stop the apocalypse while there's a Nazi hate group running around!" too.

In fact, it not being that different is a big part of what made this episode such moon logic. The whole "you're not black, you can't possibly get it, you'll never know what I've experienced!" notion...it's bullshit. Racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, antisemitism, fictitious hatred of aliens (which they really just played as nativism with the immigrants being from further away), discrimination is discrimination, prejudice is prejudice. If you've experienced it, which most people have in SOME way, then you've experienced it, and you understand the feeling well enough that you can fill in the gaps for how it affected someone else with a little empathy.

This notion that every specific identity facet is its own secret little club that you cannot possibly relate to if you're not in it and haven't experienced things the exact same way, but everybody who DOES have that identity facet's experiences have been a monolith, is not just incorrect, it's harmful. Frankly, Kelly thinking skin color means she has the same understanding of the world, with her well-to-do upbringing and cushy life funded by her PhD and according fancy job, as a homeless guy who had to do a robbery so his little brother could eat, that's its own kind of messed up not getting it.