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Post #449332

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TheBoost
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Politics and Storytelling (Superheroes)
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Date created
21-Oct-2010, 1:22 PM

xhonzi said:

TheBoost said:

But if you're talking a character who is a yelling, angry, hate-spewing talk radio guy, there aren't a lot of liberal types in that genre.

I guess that's my point.  It's almost as if the liberal showrunners are nodding to the (presumed?) liberal audience and saying, "Man have you had enough of how wrong all of those idiot right wing radio hosts are?  Amiright, folks?!?!"  For a minute, it had me thinking, "Yeah, those stupid conservatives" until I realized I WAS a conservative.  

But if the character is a big blowhard screaming fearmongering radio guy brewing irrational hatred, is it somehow the writers fault that is automatically assumed to be a conservative?

And I have to imagine that a disproportionally large fanbase for superhero stuff is conservatives, due to the traditional values represented therein.

What traditional values exactly?