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minus-squareStrongHorseWeakNeigh@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·1 year agowhat exactly is upsetting people about Superman?
minus-squareSpaceCowboy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up29·1 year agoTurns out he’s an undocumented immigrant with a weird foreign sounding name (Kal El) and he was going around acting like he was an American by the name of Clark Kent. We can’t have that!
minus-squarechingadera@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoBut but but he speaks the language
minus-squareHonytawk@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 year agoAnd he is white! No alien is ever white!
minus-squared00phy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up26·1 year agoFrom what I can tell, that he’s a decent person.
minus-squareIII@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 year agoMAGA takes issue that Superman’s Homelander rating is 0 out of 10.
minus-squareohulancutash@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoThe director of the new film framed the character as an illegal immigrant in the promotional junket.
minus-squarewheezy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year agoSure but it’s not like it’s the first time. Freakin Smallville (the TV show) had a similar plot one season. https://youtu.be/RlTtKdyg4xA https://youtu.be/g2Fv8oSW9kg Superman hasn’t changed much. Our society has become more reactionary in response to the least bit of progress.
minus-squareYappyMonotheist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoThe previous narratives at least allowed for some form of limited ethical considerations, but even that is too radical nowadays in the US…
minus-squareHonytawk@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoOf course it wasn’t the first time. Superman has been an illegal immigrant since its conception after a couple of in-house iterations.
what exactly is upsetting people about Superman?
Turns out he’s an undocumented immigrant with a weird foreign sounding name (Kal El) and he was going around acting like he was an American by the name of Clark Kent. We can’t have that!
But but but he speaks the language
And he is white!
No alien is ever white!
From what I can tell, that he’s a decent person.
MAGA takes issue that Superman’s Homelander rating is 0 out of 10.
The director of the new film framed the character as an illegal immigrant in the promotional junket.
Sure but it’s not like it’s the first time. Freakin Smallville (the TV show) had a similar plot one season.
https://youtu.be/RlTtKdyg4xA
https://youtu.be/g2Fv8oSW9kg
Superman hasn’t changed much. Our society has become more reactionary in response to the least bit of progress.
The previous narratives at least allowed for some form of limited ethical considerations, but even that is too radical nowadays in the US…
Of course it wasn’t the first time. Superman has been an illegal immigrant since its conception after a couple of in-house iterations.