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phkahler on March 9, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: William Shatner's Seat

That explains why there isn't anyone doing that today. Hollywood is too PC so there's nothing for them to "get away with".

zeveb on March 9, 2017 [–]

Presumably someone who's not PC could use allegory to get away with being un-PC.

Think of Joss Whedon's Firefly, in which the Alliance is a thinly-veiled allegory for the triumphant Union shortly after it destroyed the Confederate States.

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