It's so obvious what they're doing. Ghost Rider Scene (2007)
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I guess technically it could be accidental. But there's like 12 people in that scene, that they picked the only black guy to proclaim innocent by mere chance is highly improbable. But really though, Hollywood has led the way on the deliberate distortion of reality for a long long time, well before 2007. It was called the "long march through the institutions" quite aptly, and movies were one of the first steps in that march.
This is what makes viewing media pre 2014-2010 EXTREMELY difficult as you rightly pointed out, it was a long march so hard to tell exactly when they added new targets or changed tactics.
So as another comment pointed out, we risk seeing EVERYTHING as political unfortunately accepting the leftist framework. I'm trying to just get by with if it's shit or not as thankfully, the fully ideologically captured have no idea how to make entertainment.
I'm satisfied with differentiating myself from them by a general deferrence to objectivity. If it's a 50:50 chance it was random, I won't presume intent. If it's an 11/12 shot, I'm willing to bet on the majority odds.
Subversion and corruption thrive on benefit of the doubt and uncertainty. They never get punched in the face for being manipulative pieces of shit because everyone's so busy handwringing over the miniscule chance it's a coincidence or a misunderstanding and each individual insult is small, they achieve their desired effect by repeating it thousands of times at zero cost.
"Everything is political" wasn't an observation for them, it was a goal, and people left them to their devices in entertainment for so long that they largely achieved that goal. Recognizing that for decades now a large amount of media has had some cultist in the writers' room slipping in positive PR for their dogma isn't falling to the dark side, it's just abandoning the cope that they haven't got power.
Yeah exactly this. Why would anyone give open liars the benefit of the doubt?
The off-the-handle bullshit we see now couldn't have happened if the way hadn't been paved before, so I'm fine with assuming casting choices made since the 90s were done with political intent. There was a lot of propaganda even in children's cartoons; you'd see it with "Clinton is cool, Republicans old and mean" messaging in Animaniacs or the crippled team member in Extreme Ghostbusters.