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Netflix is quietly preparing to add a Spanish-Argentine film called Miss Carbón, also released under the English title Queen of Coal, to its U.S. lineup this month. The drama tells the true-life story of Carla Antonella Rodríguez, who is portrayed as the first transgender miner in Río Turbio, and the streaming giant plans to make the picture widely available just before the holidays.
This is not art in a vacuum; it is programming chosen by a corporate gatekeeper with a clear cultural agenda. Netflix has a long history of amplifying progressive causes, and the decision to platform a film framed around gender identity in a physically grueling, traditionally masculine trade reads like another check in the “woke” column rather than a neutral celebration of human dignity.
The timing is no accident: Netflix is simultaneously pursuing a blockbuster takeover of Warner Bros.’ studio and streaming assets, a deal that would vault the platform into an even more dominant position over what millions of viewers see. When a single company controls so much of our cultural output, we shouldn’t be naïve about what kind of stories will be prioritized or the ideological tilt that will steer mainstream taste.
Contrast that with a different corner of Hollywood where a once-mainstream star is breaking ranks and speaking plainly about the current administration. Kelsey Grammer publicly praised President Trump at the Kennedy Center events this week, calling him “extraordinary” and one of the greatest presidents, a reminder that not every celebrity toe’s the left-wing line. That rare honesty is worth noting when most of the industry reflexively applauds the newest progressive script.
This is about more than one movie or one studio deal; it’s about who decides which values are normalized and which are sidelined. Audiences have always been the final arbiters, and there’s nothing un-American about questioning whether the entertainment industrial complex is pushing ideology under the guise of storytelling. If culture is to be a marketplace of ideas rather than a monopoly, viewers and independent creators must insist on fairness, balance, and respect for common-sense standards.
Big tech and big media are consolidating power at a breakneck pace, and Americans should be alarmed when that power is used to promote social experiments as mainstream morality plays. The solution is not censorship but competition, transparency, and accountability from companies that now act like cultural commissars. The healthiest path forward is robust debate, a restored sense of cultural pluralism, and entertainment that tells real, relatable stories instead of lecturing people from a corporate pulpit.
