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Fucking James Gunn filled the new Superman with so much woke crap it broke the space-time continuum!
What changed is that right-wingers managed to convince people that Lex Luthor is not a villain but an aspirational figure.
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.
You know your society is psychologically burnt to a crisp when positive values and empathy can't even be "pushed" through fiction, lol.
"PBS didn't go woke, you grew up to be a shitty person."
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what exactly is upsetting people about Superman?
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!
But but but he speaks the language
And he is white!
No alien is ever white!
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2025
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