Comment on People angry that Superman represents kindness are outright admitting that they don't want to be good people

But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Benedict_Espinosa@europe.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Interestingly enough zero black people depicted, or any other races but white - just one dude with a dark orange complexion like the Mango Mussolini.

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  • Bloomcole@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    from this article:

    Another story from 1953 called “People are People” has a Black youngster holding off an escaped lion until Superman can capture the animal. The owner of the circus the lion has escaped from wants to congratulate a white boy for his (nonexistent) heroism until Superman points out that the heroic young man was Black, and that the circus owner only wanted to congratulate the white boy because he was prejudiced.

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  • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ethnicities. “Race” is a shit expression.

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    • voracitude@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      But it’s three syllables shorter! That’s like 75% of the syllables. Won’t you think of the savings?

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    • Benedict_Espinosa@europe.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Agreed, but ‘ethnicity’ means something else, closer to ‘national origin’ mentioned on the poster. All the white people pictured may well be of different ethnicities, for example. ‘Ancestries’, perhaps? ‘Different skin color’?

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Colour palette.

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    • diffusive@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah you got the crux of the problem here! Let‘s correct people that are saying the same with a bit of arrogance to have a dopamine kick and then let’s make a fight about this so we are pushing the other person away

      God why everything has to be so divisive these days?!

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• Bloomcole@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Interesting article about the history of ‘socialist superman’ during the depression and the ideological evolution.

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