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[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 138 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"PBS didn't go woke, you grew up to be a shitty person."

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 54 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] chetradley@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Fucking James Gunn filled the new Superman with so much woke crap it broke the space-time continuum!

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 64 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Currious also, I think a lot of people are forgetting... in 1946, the superman radio show actually had a 16 episode plot called "the clan of the firey cross", in which superman is protecting a Chinese american family, from a clan of evil doers in white hoods. Not only was the group an unsubtle reference to the KKK, but thanks to a mole in the KKK named Stetson Kennedy, it even used real world up to date for the time secret code words from the actual KKK.

There’s a book and podcast about Superman vs the Klan.

Klan members woke up one day to kids playing superman outside and using the Klan’s secret call signs and handshakes, etc. turns out the writers had an insider who revealed all the Klans secret society shit and they put it on the show to make fun of the Klan.

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 65 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You know your society is psychologically burnt to a crisp when positive values and empathy can't even be "pushed" through fiction, lol.

[–] Madagaskar_sky@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

"My brothers, do not commit the sin of Empathy!"

[–] Five@slrpnk.net 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 days ago
[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What changed is that right-wingers managed to convince people that Lex Luthor is not a villain but an aspirational figure.

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

Same reason they like Homelander.

[–] Whirling_Ashandarei@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just saw it, it was a really solid Superman movie. Superman did Superman things against Lex Luthor and acted as Superman acts since his inception.

Somehow this has people upset.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 days ago

I went in expecting it to be awful, but it might be my new favorite Superman movie. I really enjoyed it.

I think the only issue was it was just 2 hours so all the things could only be touched on. But for those 2hrs I'd say it was executed quite well.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 days ago

I enjoyed the movie.

If being kind to others is too woke, so be it. But the people who believe that can fuck right off.

I look forward to a day when I can stare one of them in the face, have them ask me for some sort of help or support, and then I tell them to fuck off.

Because I'm not Superman.

[–] StrongHorseWeakNeigh@piefed.social 19 points 3 days ago (4 children)

what exactly is upsetting people about Superman?

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Turns out he's an undocumented immigrant with a weird foreign sounding name (Kal El) and he was going around acting like he was an American by the name of Clark Kent. We can't have that!

[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But but but he speaks the language

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 9 points 3 days ago

And he is white!

No alien is ever white!

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago

From what I can tell, that he’s a decent person.

[–] III@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

MAGA takes issue that Superman's Homelander rating is 0 out of 10.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 9 points 3 days ago

The director of the new film framed the character as an illegal immigrant in the promotional junket.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 19 points 3 days ago

excellent crop ä/10