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LongTomH

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1. Of course, most superheroes are Liberals!
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 02:33 PM
Jul 2012

They go around doing good for other people, not themselves. Superman for example. He's been described as being "a champion of the oppressed," whose "values were solidly New Deal." In his career, he's taken on slumlords, arms dealers, even the Ku Klux Klan.

Add in the fact that he was created by two poor Jewish boys: Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. His Kryptonian name, Kal-el has strong Judaic roots.

A Jewish friend of mine believes Superman was created to counteract the Nazi myth of the Aryan superman (ubermensch), which of course the Nazis borrowed from Nietzsche.

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