Capsule summary:
The producers of Game of Thrones announced that they were creating a new show for HBO. The show, Confederate, will be set in an alternate history in which the Confederacy won the Civil War and the battle for civil rights continues. Basically they decided to lift the premise of Man in the High Castle while trying to cash in on the social justice trend.
Simple enough,
Except they were targeted by a social justice protest campaign currently carrying the hashtag #NoConfederate.
Sane folks might ask why. #NoConfederate Even if asking why social justice crybullies do things is an Alice in Wonderland experience. The claims that the show would promote racism are obvious nonsense. It would promote racism the way Man in the High Castle promotes Nazism. With two black producers, even the claims of appropriation are shaky.
So ultimately, why? Because they could. If you understand that, then you understand much of the dynamic. Beneath the ideology is a good deal of self-serving cynicism.
Social justice crybullies need targets. Tackling political windmills gets them attention, power and funding. The best targets are very public, wealthy and liberal. A proposed TV project by a cable channel that caters heavily to an upscale demographic and is trying to compete with Netflix was a perfect target. The details don't matter. They never really do. And liberals make perfect targets because they don't know how to fight back. The old methods of insulation, invite Sharpton or the NAACP, don't work well against the younger breed of Black Nationalist activists on Twitter.
Confederate is being attacked because it's vulnerable. The more HBO shows uneasiness, the harder the attacks will become.
The racialist activists are getting media attention. And that's what they really want.