Anecdote without any links
I had a run-in with a live era person (in the digital realm)
They were trying to argue that you can easily tell someone's politics, inclinations and motivations by the media they consume and the sort of settings and situations they write, along with the same "everything is political" rhetoric everyone has come to know and love
If you write a story with a functioning police department or constabulary as window dressing, it reveals your attitudes toward normalization of law enforcement and its oppression
If there's a race of irredeemably evil demons established as the villains, a justifiable genocide target, that's clearly allegorical toward how you look at real-world races
If you include a rape allegory or colonialist baggage, that's some white people bullshit to which we say "no thank you"
And I pointed out this is kind of dangerously presumptuous and uncharitable and all of these things could be viewed through a completely different lens, like maybe the demons represent the looming specter of the alt-right
Tried to go in-depth and respectful about it, like recognizing that of course it's possible to view everything through a political lens but it's not necessarily viable or healthy, and gave some examples of LBGT staunch leftists who have written with those themes, and how wrong you'd be to infer anything about their personal politics based on their storytelling
They weren't having it and ended with a screed about white fragility and how "you should not have challenged me bucko" and topped it off by asking a mod to step in and end the conversation immediately after
Which I think demonstrates some troubling attitudes toward authority figures/law enforcement
Additionally the mod changed the subject by declaring Game of Thrones the new topic of discussion, a story featuring rape, colonialist baggage, and an irredeemably evil destructive race (though at least they are white)
