You're presumably a white guy sitting somewhere in the mostly calm and peaceful UK, where your famous Bobbies run around without guns. Imagine that, yeah? Completely mind-blowingly nuts from an American perspective, of course, which just goes to show how different the cultures really are.

And they are different. You don't have a whole lot of cases in the UK where some fuckhead white guy cop sits on the neck of a black dude for nine minutes, literally executing him in broad daylight, in front of cameras, in front of three fellow cops that just held their dicks and watched a god damn lynching.

Similarly, you don't have a lot of cases where some dipshit vigilante "neighborhood watch" dude gets to kill the fuck out of an unarmed 17 year old kid because said kid was black and wore a hoodie. You don't have a lot of cases where cops play Simon Says at gunpoint and literally execute people if they fail. You don't have a lot of cases where cops shoot people in the back while they're running away. You don't have a lot of cases where a guy is literally executed at point blank range for reaching into a car.

Et cetera, et cetera. America does have these cases. America does have a long history of not treating black people as human beings. MLK was killed some 50 years ago. Seems like a long time, and quite a lot has happened since, but culture changes rather slowly, particularly in conservative groups. You're telling me that you know for a fact exactly what situation black people across the US are finding themselves in? Really?

You're quite right that there is a fair bit of hysteria and opportunism in some of the BLM stuff you see around the world. There's a fair bit of "I failed, could be because I sucked but it is easier to blame others for being racist, so obviously racism is the only explanation! BLM! BLM!" going around, there absolutely is. So what? Does that make the core issue irrelevant?

Are men's rights made irrelevant just because a lot of chauvinist garbage are jumping onto that issue? Does any number of Sargons or Computing Forevers or whatever else plonker you want to mention make the issue of extremely biased child custody practices irrelevant? Of course not.

Yes, the representation thing does get tiresome very fast and it generally trends towards being silly. Frankly, I hate all that quota nonsense. I hate when it is decided in advance that so many must be this, so many that. It puts people in boxes, and it promotes an idea of being hired as a token minority quota filler. Putting competence first is not a microaggression.

On the other hand, it does seem that without some conscious effort to look beyond then you do end up with the same grey and boring people that you always use. So it seems to me that maybe all that representation noise isn't exactly unwarranted but merely a bit exaggerated at the moment, and once reality catches up with the screechier elements of that scene then an adjustment will happen.

Same with all the ableism noise that we're hearing today. Ableism is in fact an actual problem but obviously it's not a problem that can be fixed by pretending that all people are equally able at everything. As your improvised comedy on the law has shown us, that just isn't a reasonable assumption. Comedy requires timing, delivery, and an ability to read the room, and I'm sorry to say that your comments lacked all three. But it's okay. We're all people, we all have equal worth, as people, but we simply do not have equal competencies in all things, and that is okay too. Too often, however, people equate lack of competence with lack of worth. And that is what ableism is.

Lastly, you want to go through a time machine? That sounds interesting. Tell me more. What time would you like to go to? The time when women were property that you could just buy? The time when black people were property? That time when selling cancer one package at a time was good business and nobody gave two fucks about all the toxic shit they were releasing into the atmosphere? That time when being into anything other than missionary with the missus was consider batshit perverted and probably a mental disease? How about going back to that time when talking openly about eradicating the scourge of Poles, Jews, homosexuals, and other "lesser peoples" was cool, is that what you're clamoring for?

All joking aside, I do know the feeling of yearning for a simpler time. We learn many things, as we grow older and gain a measure of education, and not all of those things are comforting. Thinking back to a time before we knew and hoping we wouldn't know all the things to be scared of is quite normal. That is why you have that time machine talk. But people don't actually want to go back in time, because the past actually sucked more than the present, and most people that aren't screamingly insane are quite aware.

Go back 50 years, for instance, and you won't be hearing much about modern social issues, but you will be driving those shitty 70's cars, all the hippie shit is going on around you, heavy metal is barely a thing at that point, your girlfriend will take pride in showing everybody that her armpits are bushier than yours, and Cyberpunk 2077 will be a ridiculous 50 years and 1 month away from release. And aint that just a fucking kick in the head?
You really need to read a lot more.