I’m not trying to gatekeep the franchise and my political biases are obvious with my screen name, but I just find it confusing that a conservative wouldn’t automatically be pissed off from a franchise that has had liberal/left biases baked into it from the beginning. I know a lot of them don’t like “NuTrek” so I won’t even get into those. DS9, which was the “darker” and more morally ambiguous show, had these biases still baked into it, what with a pro union episode that positively quoted the Communist Manifesto. Or Past Tense or a host of other episodes I could list. Enterprise’s last two parter was an anti xenophobia, and basically pro “globalism” episode and etc etc. The franchise has always been a left soapbox of sorts so it just kinda confuses me that there’s apparently a legion of conservative, right wing fans.

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    3 months ago

    Two words: media illiteracy. They don’t understand the themes in what they are watching; moreover, they can’t connect any themes they do recognize to their own beliefs because they are disconnected from reality in the first place.

    Modern conservatism has noticed that reality rarely agrees with its values, so its response has been to reject reality. That has a lot of side effects, and the inability to hear the message in the media is one of those side effects.