That's fine. In many ways, we should count ourselves lucky that for the most part, Hollywood is a liberal bastion. Hollywood (Netflix) helps shape American culture, and so I'm perfectly content to let the right abandon any creative enterprise concerning such entertainment. They already have undue influence thanks to FOX news and the AM side of the dial.
I question your logic here. You admit that Hollywood is very heavily liberal... which controls the vast majority of messaging and portrayals that people are exposed to... yet you claim that the right has "undue influence" because they have one news station (as opposed to many that are generally considered let-leaning) and the AM side of radio (which almost nobody listens to... while the left controls the FM side which nearly everyone listens to). I mean, I get your sentiment, I just don't think that really qualifies as "undue influence".
Unless your acceptable level of influence is zero, maybe?
Anyway, boycotting Netflix is stupid.
I can see where you're coming from, especially when I minimize it. I think there are some things to note. Yes, Hollywood is a pretty liberal bunch, and they have a certain amount of influence on our culture. Some movies and television shows may have left-leaning bent to them, and Hollywood likes to often help Democratic politicians. They do PSA's and so on. That is influence, but it's not sinister. It also tends to reflect American culture overall, as it has to sell to everyone.
Now, I described the right wing media in a minimal fashion, but let's look at it as it actually is. Fox News is huge. AM radio isn't small, Sinclair certainly isn't small, and Rupert Murdoch covers a lot more, including print media. It isn't even limited to just the U.S. It's also different than the mainstream media in a few other respects that I think are important. There's a common perception (whether right or wrong is up for debate) that the mainstream media leans left. Even if you grant that this is true, I think there's a difference between a slight media bias and an overt one. Many people, for example, like to compare MSNBC and FOX as if they're two sides of the same coin, but if we give them an honest assessment, they are not the same. Contrary to "whataboutism"
political polarization is mostly a right-wing phenomenon. There are other studies showing that FOX news viewers are simply
less informed than most. The right has a much more cynical strategy than the left in it's reporting and is the only one that maligns it's competitors while calling itself "fair and balanced". In the age of Trump, things have gotten much worse. There simply is no left equivalent to Alex Jones. There is no left equivalent to the recent Sinclair debacle.
The right tend to trust only their media exclusively. Usually Fox. They tend to distrust any other news sources more, and I think it's pretty obvious that they tend to dehumanize the other side of the aisle more. After Trump won the election, liberal circles went through a hand-wringing stage, wondering if they were too hard on Trump supporters and white people that are financially disenfranchised by certain economic policies. There is no such restraint or introspection on the right, in fact, the right tend to amplify and be more sensitive to "attacks" from the "elitists" on the left. Pick up any Anne Coulter book, pick your title.
Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America, Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), f Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans, Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right, Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism. Right-wing politics are as hate-filled as their religion, and this is not only acceptable by their own politicians, but encouraged and used to certain ends. The rise of Trump by subverting facts started with the right having an assault on reality, and was Trump merely using those same tactics against their own party that they honed on AM radio and in their churches.
So yeah, there's a big difference between all of that and watching a sitcom like
Will & Grace on television, which arguably helped usher in acceptance of gay people into the public sphere.
(The Netflix deal part... I don't give a fuck about the Trumpsters)
