By Itxu Díaz, European Conservative. (photo credit: wikimedia commons)
Behind its feel-good branding, Netflix promotes a single worldview—one that mocks tradition, rewrites history, and erodes the values that built the West.
If Netflix subscribers worldwide were a nation, they would rival the United States in population—and far surpass it in ideological reach.
And Netflix subscribers are, in fact, a nation. They are also an army. And they are also a religion. Not even Hollywood in its Golden Age matched the ideological influence Netflix has today.
But there’s a notable difference with the famous streaming platform: Netflix offers no real ideological diversity, despite constantly preaching ‘diversity’.
Instead, the streaming platform displays an exhausting ideological uniformity, however subtle it may be at times, which makes its impact far more precise in shaping public opinion.
Over the past year, I’ve had the chance to review Netflix’s content to analyze, recommend, or discourage productions for a group of teenagers who asked me to do so. While I’m not easily shocked at this point, I admit I haven’t come across major series or films that are terrifying in the explicitness of their imagery—at least not much wilder than what was already around in the ‘80s during my childhood. But what has irritated me is realizing how insidiously Netflix is quietly redefining the culture and morality of our nations and actively participating in the demolition of Western civilization’s values.
Exaggeration? Consider some recent examples, picked at random: Gay parents and a boy in a tutu in the animated series CoComelon Lane. The non-binary bison in Ridley Jones. The repulsive violence of Squid Game. The sexualization of minors in Cuties. The mockery of Jesus, Christmas, and Christians in the family-friendly Christmas special That Christmas. The 190 sexual references and pre-teens having sex in Big Mouth. The absurd woke-ification of Cleopatra.
The list could go on endlessly, shows that demonise men, ridicule families, obsess over sex, and mock tradition—packaged for teenagers as harmless fun.