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Here's some tweets by Marvel editor Alanna Smith, one of the most far-left on their staff. For example:

Sure is funny how the anti-cancel culture crowd never shows up for marginalized people who get attacked just for existing in industries dominated by cis white men, huh? Gosh, it's almost like they just want to be able to say and do hateful things with no consequences.

— Alanna Smith 🖤🤍💜 (@AlannaWrites) July 9, 2020

I think this sums up what she really thinks of Stan Lee, who's one of those "cis white men". So, why's she still working at Marvel anyway? And doesn't it count that Frank Cho had his defenders, until he stupidly had to open his mouth and curse Comicsgate? Oh, geez. There's more:

Wish they'd just come out and say "I just want to say and do hateful things with no consequences" instead of pretending they're taking some big moral stand, but hey, what do I know.

— Alanna Smith 🖤🤍💜 (@AlannaWrites) July 9, 2020

Look who's talking. Somebody who's editing the Muslim Ms. Marvel series, which pushes a hatemongering Religion of Peace hurtful to women. Yawn. Speaking of which, she also retweeted some old news from last year, seen in the following:
So she's siding by extension with a possible Islamic student at Harvard who was originally deported after traces of social media posts were found on his phone/computerized equipment. According to him:

An incoming Harvard University freshman was booted back to his home in Lebanon when he tried to enter the US — and blamed his deportation on his pals’ anti-American social media posts.

[...] “After the 5 hours ended, she called me into a room, and she started screaming at me. She said that she found people posting political points of view that oppose the US on my friend[s] list.”

Ajjawi, who is Palestinian and lives in Lebanon, insisted he’d never made any political posts and shouldn’t be penalized for his friends’ actions.

But what if he did, and the MSM won't acknowledge this? We seem to be only hearing his side of the affair. In any case, he was able to persuade authorities to reverse the decision, after student groups petitioned for it. But the company he keeps is still very reprehensible, and if he continues to lead connections with those kind of people, he's not improving his image. Nor for that matter is Smith, if she thinks this is what makes a great ideological platform to boost.

You want to know where the anti-cancel culture crowd was when my colleagues and I were getting torn apart over nothing but a photo of us trying to find a moment of joy while we mourned a beloved co-worker?

They were the ones tearing us apart.

— Alanna Smith 🖤🤍💜 (@AlannaWrites) July 9, 2020

It dovetails with the reckoning the CBLDF is currently facing: Years of protecting the rights of (mostly) men to draw boobs and say offensive crap while silencing women with NDAs and refusing to help people fight a defamation lawsuit from accused harasser.

— Alanna Smith 🖤🤍💜 (@AlannaWrites) July 9, 2020

But if women say or do something offensive, that's not wrong? It's alternately funny/sad how she's blaming Comicsgate indirectly, over something where I don't remember seeing anybody actually claiming to be part of it. Namely, the supposed honor with milkshakes for Florence Steinberg, whom I assume is the lady she's talking about. Speaking of Steinberg, what's really hilarious, and Smith probably doesn't know this, is that, when Fabulous Flo returned to work at Marvel as a proofreading editor in the 1990s, she did the proofreading for the Marvel Swimsuit Specials, where not just men, but also women like Amanda Connor drew boobs. The above tweet does suggest Smith despises that, and now that I think of it, Marvel may not have hired lady artists for quite a while, or at least, not those who have no issues like she laughably does. And while the CBLDF does/did have some scummy staffers working there, such as Charles Brownstein, who's since been exiled, I get the feeling this has little to do with them, since she doesn't give any clear citations, and apparently buys into the whole "believe all women" garbage bin mentality that's caused only so much damage to society. That she resorts to scapegoating, no matter how indirect, is another huge letdown.

I can't take the "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" crowd seriously, because I know I will never be included in the "you" they're talking about.

— Alanna Smith 🖤🤍💜 (@AlannaWrites) July 9, 2020

All this is little more than attempt to obscure how she's active in turning Marvel's properties inside out at the expense of more talented people who came before her, including Marie Severin, for example. The most talented women in comicdom today, artists and writers alike, are the ones not working for Marvel or DC, but rather, for independent publishers.

And now I'm writing an intensely anti-war space opera. Weird to see how what I project onto my stories has shifted over time...

— Alanna Smith 🖤🤍💜 (@AlannaWrites) July 17, 2020

An anti-war story, you say? Well at least she's being honest in how far to the left she leans. But it's still no excuse. And she'd do well not to insist she honors Flo Steinberg, because it's long been clear the whole milkshake controversy was manufactured for the sake of an agenda. Smith is such a disappointment, and shouldn't be keeping a Twitter page just for all this ranting.

Labels: bad editors, islam and jihad, marvel comics, misogyny and racism, politics