The Four Color Media Monitor

The entire arts and media community are hostage to political correctness. Why should comics be any different? The only hope for change is if Disney goes bankrupt and has to start creating stuff American audiences enjoy instead of vanity message media to keep from disappearing completely.

Problem is, if Disney goes bankrupt, there's no way they'd be making anything, period, as they'd be shut down. No, the ACTUAL only hope is for Iger and Chapek to be replaced with genuine conservatives to bring Disney right back to what it was under Walt and Roy Disney.

“Well today, those real life metaphors for mutants include conservatives, whites, Jews, Christians, blacks enslaved by Muslims in north Africa, and also native Europeans under threat from Islam. ”

That is really stretching the metaphor!

The point of the metaphor is that a hated minority is trying to decide how to respond to hatred - prove you are a good guy, adhere to the law, believe in the ideals of the society that oppresses you and challenge them with those ideals, like the X-Men and Martin Luther King, or take a militant and agrressive stance that defies the majority, like Magneto and the early Malcolm X?

I guess you could see Trump and white nationalists as being the conservative version of Magneto, while the Bushes and Romneys are more like the conservative version of the X-Men. But given that Trump is president and the traditional Republicans used to run the country, it is hard to describe white populists as a hated minority.

Native Europeans are not a homogenous group by any means, and include formerly despised groups like gypsies. Still, “native” Europeans hold the levers of power in Europe. It is hard to analogize them to mutants. Angela Merkel is the leader of the free world right now; mutants are not exactly a metaphor for old Europe.

The world outside our window is a world full of BLM and of people marching in the streets of Portland. It is also a world where different people have very different opinions about these things. If Marvel comics said that BLM is phony, or described the public manifestations as riots, they wouldn’t be reflecting the real world, only one particular opinion about it; they would be reflecting the world according to fourcolormedmon. That would be propaganda, not reality.

Anyone can be racist, Anonymous. It's not limited to one group. You need to stop drinking the intersectional Kool-Aid.


"The world outside our window is a world full of BLM and of people marching in the streets of Portland. It is also a world where different people have very different opinions about these things. If Marvel comics said that BLM is phony, or described the public manifestations as riots, they wouldn’t be reflecting the real world, only one particular opinion about it; they would be reflecting the world according to fourcolormedmon. That would be propaganda, not reality."

Are you that stupid? Have you not been paying attention to the news the past few months? There have been destructive riots all over the country that have destroyed entire communities. Lives have been lost, businesses have been destroyed, and you have the audacity to claim there haven't been riots?

You need help, Anonymous. You've lost touch with reality.

There has certainly been violent incidents, many of them, particularly in the early days, started by right wing provocateurs, judging by the arrest records. But calling all the demonstrations riots? Some people might make that judgment call, but it is a sweeping judgment. Compared to say Detroit 1967, the 'riots' are downright wimpy. Most serious injuries have been caused by the police, violence has been scattered and insignificant compared to the size and scope of peaceful protest. Thomas Jefferson, who thought you needed street protest and violence from time to time to keep the spirit of democracy alive, would not have seen anything amiss in this respect (although it would be interesting to hear what he would have had to say about racial issues today!)

Don't just watch the small section of the news that pushes the agenda you what you want to hear. Flames are sensationalistic and make headlines, but they are only a small part of the story.

The point is, some people call them riots and some don't, and many see that the situation is not uniform and different places have very different situations. Condemning a writer or publishing company for not advancing one particular uniform point of view just shuts down thought.

Are you a politician? Or a member of the media? Because you sure are good at spinning things to make your side look good.

Do you guys think just by putting conservatives at the head of the company will actually improve things?

"Do you guys think just by putting conservatives at the head of the company will actually improve things?"

Well, it certainly is better than keeping liberals in there, that's for sure. Heck, I'll even accept a Rand Paul-style libertarian being put in as the head of the company as long as it at least ensures it's made great again.