Dropping some knowledge for you. I bet you didn’t know that and they won’t teach you something like this at schools. That’s a shameful part of the history they want to forget, but you need to know this, to be aware of what happened to our people back then. These people experienced terror and torture just because white people didn’t want them free and flourishing.
In this video from the Washington Post on the horrific situation in Charlottesville, white nationalist Sean Patrick Nielsen said that in addition to “standing up for local white identity” and “the free market,” his top value as a Republican was killing Jews:
This is how accepted anti-Semitism is. These monsters are so comfortable in support for their Judenhasse that they are literally unafraid to give their names to a major news outlet or to show their faces to an international audience and declare that they want to murder Jewish people. And I worry one day the rest of the world will let them—again.
“In the first episode, Danny breaks into unsubtitled Mandarin upon
learning [Jessica Henwick’s character] is a martial artist, apparently assuming Asian women he
casually meets on the street are happy to speak Mandarin with a white
stranger.“
So, I have a few things to say about the current Magneto…mess. It took me some time to figure out what I wanted to say. So first, everyone needs to go and read a summary (or the actual comic) of Uncanny X-Men 199. I just read it recently, and I’m certain that this colors my thoughts.
Super short version: One of the subplots is Magneto taking Kitty Pryde to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to try to help her find out what happened to her great Aunt. It turns out that he knew her in Auschwitz under her married name, which is why he didn’t realize until someone else came forward. He’s being remembered by the other survivors as someone who worked hard to keep as many people around him alive as he could. (then Mystique shows up to arrest him and starts a fight IN THE MUSEUM…I hate Mystique, TBQH, but this is a bit of an aside.)
So today, I wake up and hear that Magneto is joining Hydra. HYDRA. The fascist organization that AT THE LEAST collaborated with the Nazis, and depending on which continuity you like, are actual Nazis. They are lead by the Red Skull, a literal Nazi.
This is the same writer, Nick Spencer, who decided that Captain America, a character modeled on the golem to try to prod America into fighting the Nazis and saving the Jews of Europe, was not just Hydra, but had ALWAYS been Hydra. This was shitting all over Jack Kirby’s legacy, as well as that of Joe Simon (I only prioritize Kirby due to his real life anti-Nazi exploits). It indicated a lack of care for a legacy character that was placed in his care.
And now he’s at it again.
In between, he had villainous “social justice warriors” and had Sam Wilson apologize to a white guy for bringing up race.
Nick Spencer is a white supremacist.
I tend to not drop these accusations lightly, but he’s established a pattern. Even aside from his on-the-page garbage, he’s been particularly awful to fans on social media who object to his “creative” choices. In general, his behavior has been worse towards minorities, of course, and this is after controlling for the fact that minorities, Jews in particular regarding Cap and Black people re: Wilson are the ones directly hurt by his terrible actions.
@marvel, you need to fire him. He is dragging your most popular characters through the mud for some cheap publicity and to promote his hateful agenda. I, previously, maintained a subscription to Marvel Unlimited, bought several monthly comics in addition to that, and regularly bought the collections. And that’s just the business that the comics division got from me. That’s all over, until Nick Spencer is no longer writing for Marvel. As much as I hate to do so, I will not be buying Miss Marvel, I will not be buying Spider-Man, and I won’t be buying X-Men. I CERTAINLY won’t be touching any of the garbage Nick Spencer has touched until the damage he’s done has been undone. You just blew up the continuity recently, but you already need to do it again, just to salvage the fundamental nature of several of your most popular characters.
Feel free to let the bill’s author know how you feel, but if you live in Texas, please also reach out to your Texas State Senators who will be deciding whether or not this goes before the governor! You can find out who your senator is and how to contact them, here: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/Resources/contactText.aspx
329 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Phone: 202-225-2931 FAX: 202-225-2944
Woodstock District Office
9898 Highway 92, Suite 100 Woodstock, GA 30188 Phone: 770-429-1776 FAX: 770 -517-7427
Cartersville District Office
135 West Cherokee Avenue, Suite 122 Cartersville, GA 30120 Phone: 770-429-1776
Galleria District Office
600 Galleria Pkwy, Suite 120 Atlanta, GA 30339 Phone: 770-429-1776 Fax: 678-556-5184
it would be best if constituents from these districts called! ask some questions and let them know we are not ok with this!
Please please please call these reps and the reps in your own state. We NEED to maintain protection for these species, as it is the only way to preserve the ecosystems that we DIRECTLY DEPEND ON for carbon sequestering, clean water, and clean air!!
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