Even if it's an alternate reality tale, turning Joker into a "hero" with SJW traces is degrading

Wired interviewed writer/artist named Sean Murphy about a Batman story he's brewing up where the Masked Manhunter is the villain, and the Joker is turned into something more like a hero, in a story angle apparently meant to appeal to the SJW crowd:

For Batman: White Knight, writer-illustrator Sean Murphy (The Wake, Punk Rock Jesus) created a version of Gotham with real, modern-day problems, and then let Batman solve them by making him the villain. How? In the comic mini-series' alternate-reality, it's the Joker—cured of his insanity—who sees that Bruce Wayne is just another part of the city's vicious cycle of crime and sets out to stop him.

"My main goal was to undo the comic tropes while changing Gotham from a comic book city into a real city—a city dealing with everything from Black Lives Matter to the growing wage gap," Murphy says. "[But] rather than write a comic about the wage gap, I gave those ideas to the Joker, who leads a kind of media war against Gotham's elite by winning people over with his potent observations and rhetoric."

While this may be an alternate reality, Elseworlds-style story, it clearly demonstrates that ultra-leftist mentality and decision making still prevail at DC (let's remember what they did over a year ago with both Superman and Batman), and it's possible they thought they could get away with it because everyone's so focused on Marvel's leftism. This is exactly why it's ill-advised to overlook other publishers just because they allegedly weren't as noticably blatant as Marvel's been of recent.

The Daily Wire says:

There is a huge problem with this logic. Why would the citizens of Gotham City suddenly forgive a psychopathic mass murderer and view him as a crusading politician who is leading the cause of social justice against the Caped Crusader? That is a stretch, even for a comic book. [...]

Murphy uses a plethora of left-wing buzzwords, playing to the leftism of the SJWs he is trying to reach.

And if they could be so prevalent at Marvel, it should come as no shock they'd still be infesting DC.

Pandering to the left-wing ideologues is what is hurting the sales at Marvel Comics. Why would DC want to copy that failing model with their greatest comic book character? The industry needs to realize that SJWs do not buy comics, nor will they. The far left will always complain about their imagined lack of diversity or social engineering in the pages.

The problem is, DC may have started some of this SJW pandering several years before Marvel did, with examples like replacing Ted Kord as Blue Beetle, Ray Palmer as Atom and Ronnie Raymond as Firestorm with "diverse" protagonists, using the abominable Identity Crisis to start it off in the worst ways possible. And it made no difference to them that SJWs wouldn't read those either. So, it comes as no shock they'd continue with their pandering now. Even as the crowd they seek is unlikely to buy this latest idiocy either.

This is why anybody disturbed now should take a good look at DC's own output in the past decade or so, and then they'd realize this is hardly new. And precisely why it shouldn't be overlooked.