>I would also remark that save for a smattering of non-white characters (and non-white creators) these books and these iconic characters are still very much white supremacist dreams of the master race.
It is kooky, and ironic, to imply that people dream of racial genocide solely because of the color of their skin.
Master race != racial genocide. Master race could even have pity or compassion for the lesser race. The key differentiation is not that of genocide vs not genocide, is of imagining a superior set of people, vs not doing it.
Super heroes are described as that superior set of people, more advanced than mere humans (stronger, smarter, genetically advanced in many cases, and more relevant to boot). Heck, even the name superhero/supermen etc alludes to Nietchtze's and the Nazis' Ubermench.
They are also predominantly white, with good looks and physique.
That's the very definition of a super race...
Re:Alan Moore on superhero culture
by jrochkind1 on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @12:05PM
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What? What are you talking about, where did Moore or anyone in this thread do that?
If you are trying to suggest that the movie Birth of the Nation glorifying the KKK, or the KKK itself, have nothing to do with white supremacy and racial genocide... then we're just done here.
He's saying that there are so many white heroes and the whole culture of the "super men" in comics, that they might as well have been the "Birth of a Nation".
Nothing kooky about it.