The quality of content Hollywood has been producing lately has been disappointing, to say the least, especially if you are a conservative-minded consumer. So when a so-called “conservative adjacent” show comes around, many are happy to tune in hoping that they are not being forced to watch woke propaganda for an hour straight.
Yet, unfortunately, even the woke cardinals in Hollywood know that’s the case, and it’s why even some much hyped-up “conservative” shows such as Yellowstone and Tulsa have subtle subliminal messages within them.
Taylor Sheridan, the creator of both series, has had to defend Yellowstone multiple times against accusations that the show is “conservative” after the backlash from mainly leftist critics since the show has received much praise from conservatives.
As one Variety excerpt explains:
“’They refer to it as ‘the conservative show’ or ‘the Republican show’ or ‘the red-state ‘Game of Thrones,’ ” Sheridan told The Atlantic. “And I just sit back laughing. I’m like, ‘Really?’ The show’s talking about the displacement of Native Americans and the way Native American women were treated and about corporate greed and the gentrification of the West, and land-grabbing. That’s a red-state show?'”
Variety
Sheridan’s statement is correct, as even the recent viral clip of the show has a Native American (Euro-Asian actor) professor lambasting a white student for his perceived misogyny and white privilege. The professor also gloats that she finally has the “power” to enact ancestral racial revenge to make his life difficult by flunking him out of her class, teaching him a lesson about his problematic “European mentality.”
All of this is fickle leftist jargon from a script trying to play on the targeted conservative audience, attack them subliminally, make them feel bad for their ancestor’s role in building America, and demand they atone to the perpetual victims of society.
It sounds like a scene written by a rural-to-urban progressive transplant barista who just happened to get Taylor Sheridan to glance at his script idea. Unfortunately, it doesn’t get any better with Tulsa King.
Capo Dwight Manfredi (played by Sylvester Stallone) intimidates and beats up a car salesman for a perceived racial strife against one of his associates (for not selling a car to someone paying in cash). Completely missing the fact that, as the scene shows, it validates the car dealer’s obvious point and concern about getting into business with the criminal element, but to progressives, at least, its the kind of woke (beat up the racist troupe) porn they constantly think about on the daily. Resulting in a woke Rocky Balboa character going around and threatening the public and criminal element for mere microaggressions.
These viral videos eventually led to the spawning of the woke cattle rancher meme, which makes fun of the latest round of woke slop being regurgitated as red-state conservatism. At the end of the day these shows aren’t the worst woke content out there. Unlike the explicitly woke shows and movies that outline who they specifically cater to, the creators of these two shows openly maintain their animosity to its mainly conservative viewers—continuing to push open, progressive agenda with just enough non-woke elements for conservatives to stomach and make them feel like they’re not being alienated from the modern Hollywood zeitgeist. The cattle rancher meme spawned from these shows is an excellent embodiment of the wolf in sheep’s clothing once again trying to subvert actual conservative messaging.
