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Watched an old TV show on streaming. I grew up watching Dennis Farina on Law and Order (yes I know it is shit) so I decided to watch Crime Story.

Crime Story from 1986 (87?) season 1 episode 6.

A court-appointed defense attorney represents a black man who lives in a cheap apartment. The defendant hit a landlord for being mean and the lawyer uses deception and trickery to get his client off using literally word-for-word modern Antifa arguments and circuitous logic.

It literally felt like it was written in 2023, complete with contradictions (the law applies equally but it's okay to beat a landlord for saying mean things), basic misunderstanding of the law and justice, and preaching to essentially disregard law instead of changing it. It was terrifying in its tone deaf nature, and it even proved, at the end, why the man should have gone to jail for assault.

The culture of writers is that of insular stupidity, and it appears to have been that way for a long time.