DC Cancels ‘Red Hood’ Comic Book Series After Writer Shares Inflammatory Post Following Charlie Kirk Shooting
DC Cancels ‘Red Hood’ Comic Book Series After Writer Shares Inflammatory Post Following Charlie Kirk Shooting
So, the entire fucking mediasphere is suddenly bending the knee to right-wing bigotry? What the actual fuck is happening right now?
Billionaire fascists bought literally every media voice they could lay hands on.
“Suddenly”
Media goes where the wind blows. Remember when they were falling all over themselves to be the most "supportive" of lgbt a few years back? Rainbows everywhere.
Or when they were all on board for Bush II's wars?
trickle down in reverse
“At DC Comics, we place the highest value on our creators and community and affirm the right to peaceful, individual expression of personal viewpoints. Posts or public comments that can be viewed as promoting hostility or violence are inconsistent with DC’s standards of conduct,” a DC spokesperson said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.
The lesson seems to be this:
Do like Charlie Kirk and start your own organization, because as long as you're the one in charge, you can say whatever the living fuck horrible thing you want (Gretchen Felker-Martin didn't even say anything really terrible compared to Kirk!), and since you're the head of organization, no one can shut you down for what you have to say.
Here's hoping Gretchen Felker-Martin starts her own comic book group and starts platforming people who aren't going to put up with fucking fascist horseshit.
The trouble is, that only works when you're spewing the kind of hateful and violent rhetoric that rich elites want to hear. There's a firehose of money being aimed at fascist influencers.
In contrast, you don't see nearly as many anti-fascist or egalitarian influencers because the economics don't work: the people who support the message don't have any fucking money.
If my employer were to fire me over a social media post in relation to Charlie Kirk
I'd make sure the right feels my pain
McFarlane 2.0
Also she's not an uncontroversial author. I've only read Manhunt from her and it's unapologetic and rough. With how raw she writes she's probably a great comic writer
I remember when comics were overtly anti-fascist.
Many of the characters' entire personas are inextricably linked to anti-fascism.
At DC Comics, we place the highest value on our creators and community and affirm the right to peaceful, individual expression of personal viewpoints.
Your actions say otherwise DC. You openly supported terrorism and hate speech when you decided to harm an employee who was a member of a vulnerable minority being actively terrorized. The level of evil and hurt you just subjected this employee to is unforgivable. I will never touch another product or property of yours again.
Shame on you, you evil, nazi accomplices.
If nine nazies are sitting at a table and someone sits down there are ten nazies.
The saying goes.. 9 people sitting at a table and 1 Nazi joins, there's ten Nazis.
Yes wouldn't want to see violence being promoted by DC Comics. DC Comics are never violent clearly. It's absurd to suggest otherwise. All DC heroes operate under the strictest tenants of pacifism.
Especially red hood who has two guns.
And is known to murder criminals.
Teachers and employees of all sorts are being fired for the same. One teacher got fired for simply quoting Kirk's now hilarious "acceptable deaths". And earlier, Musk was pressuring the Microsoft CEO on Shitter to fire employees that are critical of Kirk.
It's a complete Uno reverse of 2015
That's next level where just quoting Charie verbatim is enough to lose your job!
The party that ostensibly hates cancel culture strikes again
Abject fucking cowardice.
This is insane. We'll end up with this white-washed, boring mediocrity.
Same with that MAGA-actress from The Mandalorian. What she said wasn't even as radical, just bought into the whole election fraud conspiracy, iirc. Now we have a formerly good show where every new character AND their actor are basically PC-principal from South Park. The left failed to support her there because she was a bit of an ass, supporting a bigger ass, but no laws were broken and she fit the role perfectly: Not that smart, badass, hardly an ally when you have no other choice.
Enlightened centrists are left to create our art and literature. Well, at least the 1800s and 1900s produced a lifetime supply. But a contemporary reflection of our society, of our politics, like "1984", like "Der Untertan", like "Im Westen nichts Neues", that used to be a huge part of it, and it's slipping away.
Fiction is an actor we should not pull out of public discourse. It has been crucial to it, probably long before the first written word. Unless a crime is committed, let them write!
I doubt the show was ever good because it's made by disney and "safe for china," but I get your point.
The censorship and abuse of power on both sides needs to end. Barring that, any smart person should just recognize the tribalism for what it is and use it as a way to differentiate themselves from the average idiot.
Stupid people don't magically become smart because there's more of them, although stupid people will not understand or accept this.
You mean power Christian principle.
(The new season is not friendly to Fascists)
She cant be 2A and be concerned about the bullet? What is the right coming to?
What is the right coming to?
An end I hope
I'd like to have sympathy for these people, but when you put your fate in the hands of businessman this is what happens.
Good thing we live in a world where everyone can exist without having to work for businesses
Those "fuck your feelings" people really need delicate treatment, huh?
It was always projection. They don't give a fuck about YOUR feeling, but they are the most sensitive of snowflakes on the planet.