>Actually, one rather imagines they were, in sort of the same way that
>the pop culture of the late 20th century had a lot of Nazis in it.
>Heck, there was another Earth-Mars war in the early 21st century,
>though, to be fair, we invaded them that time. A lot of the same
>framework is there, so to speak, but the cultural context is
>different.

That actually makes me imagine that a lot of those "Mars Attacks" stories would have, around about the mid-21st century, gone through the same transition that old school "cowboys and indians" stories have here in the real world; i.e "Oh, yeah, those stories are SHOCKINGLY racist. They're an important part of the cultural canon but you'd never, ever try and make one today."

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