>>375018I don't think Westerns were ever as pure and non-pozzed as they're made out to be. Everyone acts like John Ford was so heckin' problematic for his portrayals of Amerindians, but he went too easy on the injuns if anything and also pushed a bit of implicit "proposition nation" propaganda in Drums Along the Mohawk back in fucking 1939. I think the poz ramped up during the cultural upheavals of the '60s and '70s, but I think it was already kind of latent in the genre.
But to be honest, I'm not as familiar with the genre as I should be to make a judgement like this.