Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “Clash of the Billionaire Comic-Book Supervillains,” on Elon Musk’s recent tweet comparing George Soros to X-Men supervillain Magneto — and the predictable outrage that followed. See below. (more…)
Tag: Magneto
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It all started with a simple five-word tweet Monday night in which billionaire tech titan and current owner of Twitter Elon Musk compared another billionaire to a fictional character in the Marvel comic-book universe: (more…)
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In the early 1980s a young German Jew arrived at the Auschwitz concentration camp. His name was Erik Magnus Lehnsherr (or perhaps Max Eisenhardt), and he would eventually become, after his escape from Auschwitz, the most powerful Holocaust survivor in history. As leader of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, as well as an occasional nazi-hunter for the Israeli government, this profoundly unusual Holocaust survivor dedicated himself to protecting those who, like himself, were both different and superior from the intolerance of all those who, like most of humanity, detested their difference and feared their superiority. (more…)
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October 21, 2011 Ted Sallis
Marvel Comics, Ethnizität und Rasse
Übersetzt von Deep Roots
English original here
Ich möchte den Fußspuren von Jonathan Bowden folgen und Rasse und Ethnizität im Kontext der Marvel-Comics diskutieren. (more…)
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German translation here
I’d like to follow in the footsteps of Jonathan Bowden and discuss race and ethnicity in the context of Marvel comics. (more…)