itâs exhausting to keep seeing people talk about marvelâs hydra problem as an issue of them just being tone-deaf or obtuse or clueless, this âboys will be boysâ mild eyeroll attitude to the entire conversation that so vastly downplays just how fucking evil these people are
do you honestly think that the CEO of marvel who is an outspoken trump supporter and pumped millions of money into the trump campaign doesnât know what heâs doing by pushing the nazi faction into the limelight of his comics?
turning captain america, the literal symbol for american nationalism and patriotism, into a supporter of hydra and therefore a nazi, is not a writing accident. it is deliberate.
their latest little ~fuck up~ of asking comic stores to re-brand their stores and work uniforms with hydra logos, is not just a PR gaffe. itâs deliberate.
their continuous campaign to make nazis into a faction readers are supposed to find exciting, supposed to align themselves with, supposed to wear on their shirts like a uniform, is not an accident in the kind of political climate weâre in right now. itâs deliberate.
i donât care that hydra is fictional, this isnât like the empire in star wars or w/e where itâs just about some sort of vague fascism aesthetic. hydra were always explicitly n a z i s, since their very conception, have always been called nazis by marvel, have always stood for nazi values. and now marvel is trying to make them cool again. and itâs not a fucking accident.
stop giving them the benefit of the doubt. stop talking about this like itâs something that can be fixed with civil conversation and a stern finger wagging.
nazis and anyone who defends them donât deserve that much consideration from anybody. just, yknow, a friendly psa from your neighbourhood romani jew.
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