Marvel’s current shows aren’t trying to be “morally ambiguous.” They’re trying to be *politically ambiguous*.That’s not at all the same, and please don’t taint the former with the latter It’s clear who the good guys are, with the only q who who isn’t a good guy will switch sides
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Anyway, this is why I think a lot of writers avoid bringing up politics. It’s not just “offense,” it’s that if you write about people who are mostly like you in a core way, you’re more likely to capture genuine things about them With different cultures etc. you can research
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But trying to portray someone you find loathsome sympathetically isn’t always worthwhile, and it’s not like you can get a Republican (or Democrat, or Tory, or whatever) “diversity consultant” (so to speak) who isn’t going to want to rewrite the whole thing
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a bunch of left-of-center writers doing their best to portray a "sympathetic, understandable" conservative veteran, except what they think makes a person sympathetic and understandable is pretty different than what a conservative veteran thinks does
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Right (Not to circle around to a dead horse, but this is one reason I find Orson Scott Card so fascinating - he actually does think like a liberal, and writes people incredibly ideologically different from him largely convincingly, even in his blind spots)
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Isn't 616 John Walker much more openly reactionary?
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Yeah he’s way more jingoistic and openly insensitive to other ppl in the comic. I’m kind of glad they toned that down for the F&TWS and made him more someone who’s scared of ppl getting hurt if he doesn’t act “strong” and has emotional instability.
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I don't read him as that at all. I don't see him as having any particular political leanings for a reason. The entire point of the show is moral ambiguity. His issues have nothing to do with his politics, but with toxic masculinity and how the military has broken him.
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Okay but realistically someone with his background has like a 70-80% chance of being a lifelong Republican voter
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I'm a bit tired of seeing virtually all veterans positioned as conservatives in these things. There are whole organizations of left-leaning vets, so they're neither non-existent nor of negligible numbers in real life, but on-screen vets range mainly from law'n'order obsessives /1
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to mass shooters to ultraviolent alt-Reich terrorists...
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