July 22, 2014
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Walker contends that these occasional retrofits are all about publicity and profit, not political purity. After a brief buzz-generating run”this one taking place, by an amazing coincidence, right before Comic Con”these iconic characters will morph back to their original (white, male, heterosexual) personae, just as they always do.
Such stunts, says Walker, merely perpetuate “the notion that in order for people of color and women to achieve greatness, they must literally fill the shoes of a white man.”
Thomas Sowell called this condescending worldview “self-congratulation as social policy.” That worldview, in turn, is drip-fed by an all-pervasive, zillion-dollar “entertainment” machine that, at least since the 1960s, has normalized (and commoditized) transgression and iconoclasm.
In this case, comic book creations are the icons being “clasm-ed,” devolving into “action” heroes of the “affirmative” kind. Why gays, blacks, and other minorities continue to fall for, and call for, these condescending campaigns in the name of diversity and inclusion baffles me, but hey, I”m the one who thinks The World’s Greatest Entertainer was a snooze, remember?
That real-life “McCarthyesque” villain in the 1950s comic book universe, Dr. Fredric Wertham, was, it turns out, “an extremely well-intentioned liberal, progressive man.” Now it also looks like”you”ll never guess””he misrepresented his research and falsified his results.” His moral panic starter kit Seduction of the Innocent claimed that reading Superman and Tales from the Crypt turned young people into juvenile delinquents.
From what I can make out, they actually turn into something worse: lifelong leftists.
