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    I remember when comics were overtly anti-fascist.

    Many of the characters’ entire personas are inextricably linked to anti-fascism.

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    I’d like to have sympathy for these people, but when you put your fate in the hands of businessman this is what happens.

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    At DC Comics, we place the highest value on our creators and community and affirm the right to peaceful, individual expression of personal viewpoints.

    Your actions say otherwise DC. You openly supported terrorism and hate speech when you decided to harm an employee who was a member of a vulnerable minority being actively terrorized. The level of evil and hurt you just subjected this employee to is unforgivable. I will never touch another product or property of yours again.

    Shame on you, you evil, nazi accomplices.

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    So, the entire fucking mediasphere is suddenly bending the knee to right-wing bigotry? What the actual fuck is happening right now?

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      It was always projection. They don’t give a fuck about YOUR feeling, but they are the most sensitive of snowflakes on the planet.

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      “Cancel culture” was never anything but right-wing projection. It is purely a propaganda term meant to demonize the practice of applying well-deserved consequences to bigoted and abusive behavior.

      Retaliation against normal people for calling out hate isn’t “cancel culture;” it’s just more abuse.

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        They never were canceled. They did not like that free speech allowed for people to express that they suck, so they started whining without a basis

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    “At DC Comics, we place the highest value on our creators and community and affirm the right to peaceful, individual expression of personal viewpoints. Posts or public comments that can be viewed as promoting hostility or violence are inconsistent with DC’s standards of conduct,” a DC spokesperson said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.

    The lesson seems to be this:

    Do like Charlie Kirk and start your own organization, because as long as you’re the one in charge, you can say whatever the living fuck horrible thing you want (Gretchen Felker-Martin didn’t even say anything really terrible compared to Kirk!), and since you’re the head of organization, no one can shut you down for what you have to say.

    Here’s hoping Gretchen Felker-Martin starts her own comic book group and starts platforming people who aren’t going to put up with fucking fascist horseshit.

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      The trouble is, that only works when you’re spewing the kind of hateful and violent rhetoric that rich elites want to hear. There’s a firehose of money being aimed at fascist influencers.

      In contrast, you don’t see nearly as many anti-fascist or egalitarian influencers because the economics don’t work: the people who support the message don’t have any fucking money.

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      Also she’s not an uncontroversial author. I’ve only read Manhunt from her and it’s unapologetic and rough. With how raw she writes she’s probably a great comic writer

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    So, are they going to fire everyone who supports Kirk or Trump too?

    Sounds like they were peacefully expressing their viewpoints.

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    Yes wouldn’t want to see violence being promoted by DC Comics. DC Comics are never violent clearly. It’s absurd to suggest otherwise. All DC heroes operate under the strictest tenants of pacifism.

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    She cant be 2A and be concerned about the bullet? What is the right coming to?

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    This is insane. We’ll end up with this white-washed, boring mediocrity.

    Same with that MAGA-actress from The Mandalorian. What she said wasn’t even as radical, just bought into the whole election fraud conspiracy, iirc. Now we have a formerly good show where every new character AND their actor are basically PC-principal from South Park. The left failed to support her there because she was a bit of an ass, supporting a bigger ass, but no laws were broken and she fit the role perfectly: Not that smart, badass, hardly an ally when you have no other choice.

    Enlightened centrists are left to create our art and literature. Well, at least the 1800s and 1900s produced a lifetime supply. But a contemporary reflection of our society, of our politics, like “1984”, like “Der Untertan”, like “Im Westen nichts Neues”, that used to be a huge part of it, and it’s slipping away.

    Fiction is an actor we should not pull out of public discourse. It has been crucial to it, probably long before the first written word. Unless a crime is committed, let them write!

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      I doubt the show was ever good because it’s made by disney and “safe for china,” but I get your point.

      The censorship and abuse of power on both sides needs to end. Barring that, any smart person should just recognize the tribalism for what it is and use it as a way to differentiate themselves from the average idiot.

      Stupid people don’t magically become smart because there’s more of them, although stupid people will not understand or accept this.