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Because people are really bad at reading into media
Even when it isn't subtle, they just go "This is entertainment and has no bearing on my actual life or beliefs"
That's why most of the discussion about the movie was that it retread the same ground as Pocahontas (which aside from the colonialism angle, isn't that similar) and not the actual themes of the film
The Starship Troopers paradox. When confronted with the image of Neil Patrick Harris in SS garb at a Nazi funeral, the average American media consumer blurts out, "wow, the good guys in this space bug killing movie sure are snappy dressers."
Americans: "Hahaha, it's afraid!"
One of my favorite parts about Starship Troopers is that the movie starts chronologically after the ending, showing people dying horrifically. Even when the movie ends on a relative high note, it outright tells you (via the beginning) that it doesn't matter and everyone's fucked.