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Zikten posted...

I'll add to my previous post that I don't see the difference between a CSA show on HBO, and that show Man in the High Castle, where America lost ww2 and got conquered by Japan and Germany

Why is a nazi America show ok but a Confederate show is horrific and has to be shut down?

When High Castle was originally written, and then filmed, we were at a place as a country where we believed the premise entirely too absurd to be anything but safe, allegorical fiction. After all, a good warning against fascism is part of what sci-fi does best, but we'd never let real Nazis win.

But the Confederacy? Those dudes are like a raw and open wound on the American psyche. They still exist and are very real. Some of them who pointed police dogs at black people then have grandchildren who'd recognize them in those pictures today.

It was probably way too real and too close to home to think of them good ole boys coming to power, because they've been working on it for 50 years already (and then some) to bring it back.

I can see why one was easier to green light than the other. Back then. I don't know how quick "the Nazis won" would be able to get past the script slush pile these days...