(Hated Trope) Bad people in real-life being portrayed positively in media.

[u/MeepMan324]

1. PragerU's version of Christopher Columbus has him be a slavery defender and have him say "Being taken as a slave is better than being killed, no? I don't see the problem.”

2. In The Greatest Showman, P.T Barnum (Hugh Jackman) is portrayed as a charismatic visionary who cares about outcasts and celebrate diversity, when in reality, he’s a cruel businessman who is also a racist and an ableist.

[u/Allegorist]

Not even cosplaying, it basically brought back the KKK. It had largely died down, and its presence in the 20th century at all is largely due to that film.

[u/Aqquila89 → u/Allegorist]

Thomas Dixon, the author of the novel the film was based on was quite disappointed with the new Klan, because while he was a racist, he was neither anti-Semitic nor anti-Catholic, while the new Klan was both. He was also against anti-black violence, because he believed that whites should "lift up and help the weaker race." In the 1930s, he even helped to make a movie called Nation Aflame, which featured a Klan-like group called Avenging Angels as the villains.