Angry leftists have declared war on the United States of America and liberal politicians are supporting this effort. The criminal scumbags who are burning our are cities and destroying our history are demanding that the police departments be defunded or dismantled. In cities like New York, LA, and Minneapolis, the democrats running the show are bowing to these demands. Because leftist rage can never be satiated, the ridiculous call to get rid of the police is moving to an effort to cancel superheroes because they are racist “cops in capes.” If you had “defund Batman” on your apocalypse bingo card, you just scored.
Time magazine has let us know: We’re Re-examining How We Portray Cops Onscreen. Now It’s Time to Talk About Superheroes
No, it really in’t that time, but whatever. Here’s the single dumbest thing written in the wake of the George Floyd riots:
Superheroes have dominated popular culture for the last decade—they are fixtures of the highest-grossing movies and icons to more than just our children. They are beacons of inspiration: protesters dressed as Spider-Man and Batman have turned up at recent Black Lives Matter demonstrations. And yet what are superheroes except cops with capes who enact justice with their powers?
With a few notable exceptions (more on those later), most superhero stories star straight, white men who either function as an extension of a broken U.S. justice system or as vigilantes without any checks on their powers. Usually, they have some sort of tentative relationship with the government: The Avengers work for the secretive agency S.H.I.E.L.D.; Batman takes orders from Gotham police commissioner Gordon; even the villainous members of the Suicide Squad execute government orders in exchange for commuted prison sentences. And even when superheroes function outside the justice system, they’re sometimes idolized by police because they are able to skirt the law to “get the job done.”
The Suicide Squad is comprised of a black guy, a Latino, an Asian, 2 women, and 3 non-humans who take their orders from a black woman to kick an an Asian woman’s ass. Awesome example of how racist white superheroes are a extrajudicial are of the racist police. Not!
As it turns out, this thing is so bad that Batman might be racially profiling minorities:
When Batman ignores orders and goes rogue, there’s no oversight committee to assess whether Bruce Wayne’s biases influence who he brings to justice and how.
In the most recent Batman films, the title character has beat up Scarecrow (a white guy), wailed on The Joker (a white guy), curbed-stomped Bane (a white guy), and thrown down with Superman (a white guy). If anything, Batman has a problem with white men. When is Hollywood going to do something about this racism?
Most of the blockbuster Marvel and DC comics movies skirt the issue of who should define justice for whom.
Maybe that’s because superhero movies are fantasy escapism and not leftist propaganda pseudo-documentaries.
What’s more, given that the creators and stars of these movies have historically been white men, it’s hardly surprising that so few reckon with issues of systemic racism—let alone sexism, homophobia, transphobia and other forms of bigotry embedded in the justice system or the inherent biases these superheroes might carry with them as they patrol the streets, or the universe.
Those damn white men. When are they going to realize that everything has to be “woke” and liberal? Luckily, the author of this Time piece has a solution to a non-existent problem:
If Hollywood is to do better in telling these stories, more creators of color need to be given the reins to tell them.
Only when this creative freedom is encouraged and Hollywood offers more opportunities to BIPOC creators—and white creators use their capital to support creators who are too often overlooked—will we get more superhero tales that adequately grapple with the complexity of justice in America.
BIPOC? I looked it up and it stands for “black indigenous people of color” so no Hispanics or Asians.
Hollywood probably will try to make a socially conscious superhero film with an emphasis on inclusion and anti-police/anti-America sentiments. The second that it flops, they’ll go right back to white guys beating the shit out of mutants because one thing the entertainment industry understands in money.
