On MAGA and the Willful Misunderstanding of Pop Culture

[New Breed Leader]

from the brilliant Liberal librarian at The Establishment Bar blog:

Director James Gunn has made it clear that the story of Superman is the story of an immigrant finding his place in America. Yes, he's an almost divinely-powerful alien from another, dead planet, much different than the campesino traversing the length of Central America to try and escape the poverty and violence of his homeland. But it's hard to deny that Superman is in all senses of the word an immigrant, an alien in a strange land, trying to figure out how to be who he is when he is different from all those around him. If that is not the immigrant experience, I don't know what is.

MAGA is up in arms over Gunn's assertions. What does he know? I mean, he's just the director of the film who put in the subtext. But why does it have to be "woke"? Can't people leave out the politics?

[Aristus]

1. It just proves that MAGAts are incapable of reading so much as a comic book.

In Superman's early comic book days, before the rise of supervillains, Superman's main adversaries were greedy landlords, crooked cops and businessmen, and union busters. Are the MAGAts so stupid that they couldn't see Superman's liberal mission from eight-five years away?

[BoRaGard]

4. .

[Wounded Bear]

5. Superman was also anti-Nazi...

[kimbutgar]

2. I watched part of the Christopher Reeves one recently and that Superman was from a foreign planet

The story hasn’t changed it’s just that fox and the reich wing media need to drum up bs outrages to keep their idiot base engaged in their faux coverage.

[New Breed Leader]

3. true