I know I need to get off of FB but I got this in a Star Wars EU group I'm in and I simply asked the guy who posted it if he thinks he is saying something important? I definitely noticed a big change within the past years in certain fandoms so that isn't just my imagination. But anyways, how would y'all respond and since this is a common thing about current woke "fans" is there anything to rebut this? I know Eric July did a video a while back in regards to comic books.
Forever taking risks since TOS. FOR THE UNEDUCATED. • X-Men is about civil rights. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get X-Men. • Black Panther is about civil rights. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Black Panther. • Captain America literally fought nazis. He is the embodiment of fighting the alt-right. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Captain America. • The Empire in Star Wars is fascist. The Rebel alliance are Anti-Fascist. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Star Wars. • Doctor Who was about an alien fighting for all of humanity in spite of totalitarian regimes. If you don't get that, you don't get Doctor Who. • The Punisher isn’t meant to be a role model for police or armed forces. So much so that the writers of The Punisher made him actively speak out against it in a comic. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get The Punisher. • Deadpool is queer. He’s pansexual. Fact. If you didn’t get that you didn’t get Deadpool. • Star Trek is about equality for all genders, races and sexualities. As early as the mid-60s it was taking a pro-choice stance and defending women’s right to choose. One of its clearest themes is accepting different cultures and appearances and working together for peace. (It’s also anti-capitalist and pro-vegan). If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Star Trek. • Superman and Wonder Woman (and a whole host of other superheroes) are immigrants. The stance of those comics is pro-immigration and pro-equality and acceptance. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Superman or Wonder Woman. • Stan Lee said, “Racism and bigotry are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today.” If you’re bigoted or racist, you didn’t get any of the characters Stan Lee created. • The stories we grew up with all taught us to value other people and cultures and to treasure the differences between us. Only villains were xenophobic, or sexist, or racist, or totalitarian. I can’t understand how anyone can have missed that. • If you’re upset that there’s a black Spider-Man, or a black Captain America, or a female Thor, or that Ms. Marvel is Muslim, or that Captain Marvel was pro-feminism or any of the other things right-wing “fans” say is “stealing their childhood” - you never got it in the first place. The things you claim are now “pandering to the lefties” were never on your side, to begin with. If you consider yourself a fan of these things, but you still think the LGBTQ+ community is too “in your face”, or have a problem with Black Lives Matter, or want to “take the country back from immigrants”, then you’re not really a fan at all. Geek culture isn’t suddenly left-wing... it always was. You just grew up to be intolerant. You became the villain in the stories you used to love.
"Woke" has changed drastically.
Yes, X-men was about civil rights. But what the hell rights are minorities fighting for today? They have so many programs catered to them and still commit way more crime. Magneto was a mutant supremacist and he was the VILLAIN, yet that's exactly what BLM is today. They're black supremacists.
Captain America fought nazis. Which was useful propaganda to alleviate the guilt of a brother war. No one likes war, but turning them into cartoon villains makes living with it easier. Then in the 00s or so, suddenly EVERYTHING became fascist/nazi. That's completely taking Captain America out of context.
Yes, the Empire in Star Wars was a fascist regime. But guess what? Facebook, twitter, youtube, etc taking orders from the CDC is the literal fucking definition of fascism. The extended universe literally justified the Empire's existence because of a huge exogalactic threat. Which is precisely why they had to burn the EU. So these woke idiots again are turning against the wrong fascists and and neglecting the context of the lore.
The Punisher is about breaking the rules to punish bad guys. A case where things like "due process" gets in the way from bringing justice. It's about making people cheer for Duerte style mob justice, except they're proven themselves gullible enough to cheer for the death of anyone the state-run media tells them to cheer for.
Star Trek was promoting equality, sure. But like with X-men, people don't want equality today. They want privileges. And that's ant-Star Trek.
Superman and immigration? Superman is a perfect example of the "model minority" that woke-tards claim is harmful and why they hate asians. Specifically because asians make blacks and mexicans look bad.