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Ah, yes. The famously debate-welcoming leftists.
Marvel: Hey, folx! Iron Man is now a little black girl who is better than Tony Stark at everything and lectures people about their privilege!
Fans: This sucks.
Marvel: YOU RACIST SEXIST NAZIS!!
That's only because the comic book industry was yet another domain being overrun by "Social Justice Warriors" intent on pushing traditional American values to the margins.
They are using the famously hackneyed "Republicans pounce" trick that the media uses all the time. It goes like this:
Republicans do something bad. Democrats criticize. Media reports "Republicans do bad thing."
Democrats do something bad. Republicans criticize. Media reports "Republicans pounce on Democrat thing."
So it's either Republicans doing the bad thing directly, or Republicans cynically criticizing Democrats for political gain. The media always frames the Republican actions as negative, and avoids talking about the Democrat thing.
Once you notice this trick, you can't unsee it. It's used all the time, and in fact "Republicans seize" is a variation I've seen many times.
Exact same thing here. Don't talk about the blatant ideological takeover of the comics industry, frame it like "the alt-right" is opportunistically pushing their agenda by noticing it.
A couple more points about framing.
This makes it sound like they were a disinterested party, and not the active aggressors in the "Culture Wars."
Not only is this the "pounce" framing I mentioned early, it also frames it as though only the dreaded "alt-right" were the ones with complaints about comics being turned into Woke propaganda.
Because only evil racist misogynist Nazis would complain about that!
"What could have been a peaceful regime was instantly sucked into America's polarized "War on Terror".
Why would the Iraqis/Afghanis do such a thing?
"Is the Alt-Right in the room right now?"
They're touching me in my no-no places.
you're just mad that they caught on and gave you a name.
Yeah, a lot of people don't like large changes to existing characters. I very much doubt these people would be celebrating if Black Panther were made into a white character.
Which begs the question, why not create more diverse superheroes instead of appropriating existing franchises? (Rhetorical question, of course; these people are creatively bankrupt.)
Modern science in a nutshell: Start from the conclusion (that there was a "toxic turn") and work back from there.
And of course the idea that being against something or being negative is inherently "toxic" is ludicrous. They certainly don't adhere to that standard when it comes to criticism of the police or conservatives. On the flip side, there certainly are such things as toxic positivity and weaponized empathy.
I wish someone made a Black Panther comic that is either Han Chinese or Indian. Have a frail, weak Black Panther get saved by the hero from Tamil, lecturing him on how selfish his entire life has been, eventually having him put on the costume.
Hot take: race and gender swapping characters isn't ruining comics; the writing and art in comics has gone to shit and "diversity" is a smokescreen to distract from this.
One is a symptom of the other.
Maybe we'd believe you weren't doing it deliberately if you didn't keep making every male character female.
Nothing gets debated. Leftists get everything in media. The rest of us are left to abandon properties we've loved since childhood as people who hate us revel in the subversive nonsense. It's really okay though - I've done so many cool things since giving up all of this stuff
"Well, what happened was, they just started saying publicly it in front of cameras" -- JonTron (for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXprqpEAk0c )
Where is this faggotry from?
https://twitter.com/cheriangeorge/status/1538567491021991936
This faggot has zero fucking understanding of the so-called "culture wars".
This is an academic from an elite ivory tower thumbing his nose at the poors and peasants.
Fuck these people.
This is just a Left-wing chic tract
What study? I know the whole "sOuRcE?" thing is cringe, but what was the study about? Who the fuck is studying this, and how was it quantified? It sounds like they just dropped "study" as a way to legitimise what they were saying with nothing to back it up.
"You, there, on the rampart! Yes, you, Gate-Keeper! CLOSE THE GATE!"
That was a line in Love and Thunder? Or the comics?
Either way, they are scum.