Trump supporters think that novel-based anti-Nazi audio-drama is an actual political broadcast. [View all]

[DetlefK]

http://io9.gizmodo.com/trump-supporters-get-mad-because-they-think-the-man-in-1793159888

Amazon announced this week that it was launching Resistance Radio as a companion program for The Man in the High Castle, an alt-history drama loosely adapted from the Philip K. Dick novel. The pre-recorded radio program is basically a bunch of people talking about how the Third Reich is bad and does bad things. For some, they thought that applied to America’s current president (and/or they didn’t bother actually listening to it). In response, several irate opposers flocked to Amazon’s sponsored #ResistanceRadio hashtag to complain about the station’s “liberal agenda.”

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Now, there are two possible explanations for this. The far more likely one is they didn’t bother researching the website before deciding a radio station about “the Resistance” was against President Trump, essentially creating a modern-day War of the Worlds where panic was quicker than fact-checking. However, it is also unfortunately plausible that a few people heard about a radio show bashing Nazis and thought, “Hey, maybe I shouldn’t like that, because Trump and stuff.”



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There was no panic when War of the Worlds aired. People knew it was an audio-drama. The panic was made up in hindsight by the media. Even people back then weren't as gullible as Trump-supporters are today.