This story is pretty funny. Marvel Comics published a controversial issue of Captain America. He was investigating a "radical terrorist group". It really was a "Tea Party" protest group.
Ironically, Captain America also depicted the "Tea Party" protesters as a group of racist white people. That's also the mainstream media bias regarding the "Tea Party", that it's a group of racist white people, disgruntled that there's a black President.
Surprisingly, there was a massive backlash against Marvel Comics. They were forced to apologize. Of course, an apology has no economic value. Still, it's interesting that there were a lot of people offended by this comic. That's a promising sign.
Marvel Comics' excuse is that they were looking for a generic terrorist group, and happened to pick the Tea Party. As another site mentioned, "They aren't sorry they did it. They're sorry they got caught."
Overall, this is a promising incident. The State attempted to portray freedom-seekers as terrorists, and it didn't work.
I'm surprised that a lot of people were offended by this comic. Perhaps the number of people who understand "All taxation is theft!" is greater than my estimate.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Captain America vs. America
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I think you're way off base with this one. For one thing Marvel Comics != the State.
For another, it's a reasonable mistake -- because like it or not, there are a *LOT* of racist white people at various tea parties, who are primarily upset that we have a black Kenyan muslim terrorist for a president.
(But I agree that it was stupid to use them for "generic terrorist group".)
Oh I know all that already. Go tell that stuff to the jackasses at the tea parties with photoshopped signs of Obama with a bone in his nose or a hammer and sickle or shit like that. LOL
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