Yep. This is a big part of it. Stories that don’t handle milieu transpositions well end up doing unintentional reputation laundering. This is why “what if south had won the civil war” is not an innocent premise. It will work or not depending on who does it and why.
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I side-eye well-meaning historical reconstructions that present diversity as a fact when historical circumstances dictate (often emphatically) otherwise. This feels like it lets historical racist societies off the hook for their attitudes to make contemporary viewers comfortable.
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