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⌈ Secret Post #3580 ⌋

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Re: John Carter of Mars

[(Anonymous)]

The thing with Firefly isn't that every government vs rebels fictional war represents the Civil War, it's that Firefly is a space Western and the Western genre is very explicitly a post-Civil War genre. If Firefly didn't go out of its way to invoke the Western genre, it would be a lot easier to say it's a faulty comparison. But when you're going out of your way to set up a Western thing, I think there's a lot less plausible deniability.

The other thing is that it's complicated to talk about "faulty comparisons" here. Is it a faulty comparison compared to the actual historical reality of the Confederacy and the USA? Absolutely. But it's a lot closer to the way that post-Civil War apologists for the Confederacy understood it, which is the worldview that shaped the Western as a genre. So again, I think it's more complicated than that.