The choice of political alignment, though, had strategic consequences, no?
The binary was:
a) Turn over the girl to the Moclans in violation of PU ethics. This would secure Moclan cooperation in the war against the Kaylon and help the odds of organic life surviving.
or
b) Keep the girl in accordance with PU ethics. This would alienate the Moclans, risk the military alliance, and increase the odds of destroying all organic life.
And as I recall, this wasn’t a choice the crew made, but a choice the PU made as Peter Griffin argued for it.
Maybe it’s from a later season?
But, anyway, as a critique of Democratic Party Politics, I don’t find it very satisfying. The problem with the Democratic Party is that it’s captured by corporate capitalist interest and we are prevented from building an effective political narrative (the rich are out to destroy all of us) because they are funded by wealthy interests that would be threatened by the raising of class consciousness.
As a result, Dems are just sort of stuck being the party of vaguely nice people, which includes being for minority inclusion, but, you are quite correct to say that this does NOT ever really extend to trans-people. But the problem is that everyone assumes Dems do support trans rights because it makes perfect sense to that they would, but because Dems won’t actually DEFEND the position they are ACCUSED of, they lose everyone–unaware people who just assume Dems support trans rights, and people tuned in to the fact that Dems throw trans-people under the bus at every opportunity.
I don’t know you make that fine grained analogy in an epic military space opera, tho.
The choice of political alignment, though, had strategic consequences, no?
The binary was:
a) Turn over the girl to the Moclans in violation of PU ethics. This would secure Moclan cooperation in the war against the Kaylon and help the odds of organic life surviving.
or
b) Keep the girl in accordance with PU ethics. This would alienate the Moclans, risk the military alliance, and increase the odds of destroying all organic life.
And as I recall, this wasn’t a choice the crew made, but a choice the PU made as Peter Griffin argued for it.
Maybe it’s from a later season?
But, anyway, as a critique of Democratic Party Politics, I don’t find it very satisfying. The problem with the Democratic Party is that it’s captured by corporate capitalist interest and we are prevented from building an effective political narrative (the rich are out to destroy all of us) because they are funded by wealthy interests that would be threatened by the raising of class consciousness.
As a result, Dems are just sort of stuck being the party of vaguely nice people, which includes being for minority inclusion, but, you are quite correct to say that this does NOT ever really extend to trans-people. But the problem is that everyone assumes Dems do support trans rights because it makes perfect sense to that they would, but because Dems won’t actually DEFEND the position they are ACCUSED of, they lose everyone–unaware people who just assume Dems support trans rights, and people tuned in to the fact that Dems throw trans-people under the bus at every opportunity.
I don’t know you make that fine grained analogy in an epic military space opera, tho.
Why do you want to side with the TERF aliens against the anti-slavery robots, again?
Survival, obviously.
I think we’re looking different things from our media, and that’s fine.