and conservatives are losing their minds
“he can’t be! He isn’t brown!”
Anyone could quick give me a small summary?
James Gunn commented that Superman is an immigrant, and conservatives are losing their minds
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Apparently there is a black version of Superman in some comics and they were making a movie of him. Sadly, the movie has been cancelled.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 day ago
To be fair, the cancelled movie would have been with Will Smith. I’m ok being without a Will Smith Superman movie. Steel did get his own movie, but without any Superman IP in it.
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They already made a Will Smith Superman movie. He was a drunk hobo version of Superman.
DarkMetatron@feddit.org 1 day ago
But that’s nothing new. In Smallville there is one episode in which Clark said to his mother Martha that he is an illegal alien too.
Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
He also renounced his US citizenship in Action Comics #900 like 15 years ago.
ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
That’s all? That’s why they’re upset? Sigh, it’s as if someone accidentally farts and then they rage.
Isn’t he kinda right though? If I remember well, Superman came from another planet.
blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
There are two plausible explanations:
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People think immigrant refers to a person who chose to move. Since Superman didn’t arrive on Earth by choice, he’s not an immigrant. This is, of course, incorrect.
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People think the term immigrant only refers to people who look “different” compared to what is common in the region. This is, of course, racist.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
If they’re okay with immigrants who didn’t come by choice, then all the children who were brought to America illegally by their parents should be allowed to stay and everyone born in America should be allowed to stay citizens.
As for Suoerman not looking like an immigrant, it is actually a big coincidence in-universe that he happens to look like a white human. There’s no Europe on Krypton.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
As for Superman not looking like an immigrant, it is actually a big coincidence in-universe that he happens to look like a white human. There’s no Europe on Krypton.
Now I want an alternate-universe Superman who happens to be black, and lands in racist-as-hell-ville in the rural USA.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
he would be a refugee.
Wolf@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Refugees are a type of immigrant though.
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Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 day ago
He also said that Superman is kind, and that bothered them too.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
People on Facebook are telling me he isn’t an immigrant, he’s from outer space. I’m so confused as to what they think an immigrant is
Fluke@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Literally an illegal alien, and they refuse to see it.
790@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
The most illegal alien. Smallville had an episode where Clark helped hide an undocumented migrant. His mom tried to chastise him and he had to remind her his own paperwork is shady as hell.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
illegal space alien.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Does he like his toast done on one side…?
Valmond@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No no no, you see he’s white! /s
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Strange visitor from another world” is one of the first things most people learn about him, right after him being neither a bird nor a plane.