The precise wing‘s warfare on Netflix wages on.
The Pentagon issued an announcement blasting the streamer’s programming and management Friday following an inquiry in regards to the new collection “Boots” from Leisure Weekly. Whereas the response from Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson didn’t straight tackle the homosexual coming-of-age navy present, it did slam Netflix for following an “ideological agenda” that “feeds woke rubbish to their viewers and youngsters.”
“Underneath President Trump and Secretary [Pete] Hegseth, the U.S. navy is getting again to restoring the warrior ethos,” Wilson’s assertion stated. “Our requirements throughout the board are elite, uniform, and intercourse impartial as a result of the burden of a rucksack or a human being doesn’t care when you’re a person, a lady, homosexual, or straight. We is not going to compromise our requirements to fulfill an ideological agenda, not like Netflix whose management constantly produces and feeds woke rubbish to their viewers and youngsters.”
The Trump administration’s efforts to revive this “warrior ethos” to this point has included banning transgender folks from serving within the navy, body-shaming high navy brass and different service members and declaring an finish to “woke” tradition and insurance policies. The assertion comes amid the Pentagon’s transfer to implement a brand new unprecedentedly restrictive media coverage that paints fundamental reporting strategies as felony exercise.
Based mostly on Greg Cope White’s 2016 memoir “The Pink Marine,” “Boots” follows Cam Cope (Miles Heizer), a homosexual teenager who enlists within the Marines at a time when being homosexual within the navy was nonetheless a criminal offense. Noting the present’s well timed themes, Instances tv critic Robert Lloyd referred to as it a “completely respectable, good-hearted, unsurprisingly sentimental miniseries” in his overview.
The present’s creatives additionally labored carefully with a number of advisors with previous navy expertise to authentically painting the Marines and navy life within the Nineties.
The Pentagon’s criticism in opposition to Netflix follows the current marketing campaign led by billionaire Elon Musk calling for folks to cancel their subscriptions to the streamer. The on-again/off-again Trump ally railed in opposition to Netflix on X earlier this month after clips of “Useless Finish: Paranormal Park,” an animated Netflix collection that includes a trans character, was making the rounds on the social media platform. The present was canceled after its second season was launched in 2022.
Regardless of being the goal of right-wing ire, Netflix additionally has a historical past of being referred to as out for its anti-trans programming. In 2021, transphobic remarks made by comic Dave Chappelle in his particular “The Nearer” led to protests, walkouts and even a resignation of a trans worker. The streamer adopted that in 2022 by releasing a comedy particular from Ricky Gervais that additionally featured transphobic materials.
