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If a flaming old queen in a cape wants to kill off racists in power I say have at it

marvels

like you all wouldnt be hyped as fuck to join a gay rights club called the “brotherhood of evil gays”

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this is an exceptionally valid point.

like you all wouldnt be hyped as fuck to join a gay rights club called the “brotherhood of evil gays”

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this is an exceptionally valid point.

Evil Queer Alliance…

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The X-Men and Fantastic Four franchises functionally existing in their own continuities except when there’s a crossover on is basically the only way that Hyrda makes sense as a going concern. Magneto strangles Nazis with barbed wire for fun, and Doctor Doom canonically hates Nazis almost as much as he hates Reed Richards – and both of them are powerful enough crack the planet in half on a good day. Can you imagine the life expectancy of your average Hydra agent if their organisation properly shared the same universe as either one of those kindly gents, let alone the pair of them? Like, who’s gonna stop them? Captain America?

Setting a few things straight:

1. magneto was right (accepted all mutants to his cause instead of just the pretty ones, taught them to love and respect themselves, actively fought against anti-mutant rhetoric in order to prevent another holocaust)

2. magneto was kind of stupid (regularly played chess with a telepath)

Really he should have been playing Hungry, Hungry Hippoes or something like that; a game of instinct, rather than strategy; a hero’s game.

you know, when Marvel did that shitty plotline about Cap being a Hydra agent (aka a Nazi) I wasn’t pleased, but I saw a ton of activity on my dash about it. People were angry. I think it was trending on Twitter.

personally, as a Jewish girl, I was a lot more hurt when the MCU had Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, two Jewish and Rroma children of Holocaust survivors, whitewashed and volunteer to join Hydra. And when that happened, I never saw a single post about it. No one cared, even though the thing with Cap was a gimmick, and the thing with the twins was outright ignorant anti-Semitism.

I understand that Steve Rogers is everyone’s favorite white guy. I understand. but if you care more about that than the Romanoffs, then I’m not sure you understand much of anything.

I see that the same writer who did Captain America is a Nazi has written Magneto is a Hydra Nazi too. and I see exactly one person on my dash posting about it.

now, maybe it’s my own fault for following the wrong blogs. maybe I expected too much of people, to care about things like this, things that affect Jews.

when I made a post about the Cap thing a few months back, I was yelled at by a Holocaust denier and whined at by a white German who was “tired of being blamed” for history, as though history is not our responsibility, as though history is not always right beside us.

so here is my post about the Magneto-Nazi-Hydra thing: the political climate has been harshly anti-Semitic lately. it’s been anti- a lot of things obviously. but my people’s cemeteries are being destroyed, my people’s places of worship and community are being threatened, I have seen more swastikas this year than I have in the past five, and Marvel just put their single most iconic Jewish character in line with their fictional Nazi order. and one fucking person on my dash is talking about that.

I expected better. I don’t know why I expected better. no one in this modern world seems to know how to treat Jews. are we people of color? are we a minority? are we white? are we all Zionists? what are we and where do we fit?

you don’t need to have all the answers. I know I don’t. it would just be nice to know that someone gives a shit, now of all times, about how my people get represented and treated in the media. there’s been so much anti-Semitism in the news lately, maybe you don’t know what to say. to say about the real news or this Marvel plotline or any of it.

so you know. if you even care at all about something that harms my community much more than everyone’s favorite white guy getting a stupid plotline, could you say something? anything? don’t just “like” a post, it’s useless. if you don’t know what to say, reblog this, reblog something else, I don’t care how you do it, just say something. anything.

please. please say something. we can’t drown out their voices on our own.

I’d say it’s probably because a lot of people in the Tumblr sphere probably haven’t seen or heard of it yet due to so many being turned off from the first dumb fuck up this Shitty writer did.

Wait a minute. They made MAGNETO, that mutant that HATES NAZIS MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD, into a fucking HYDRA AGENT? HOLY FUCKING SHIT WHAT IN THE GODDAMN UGH UGH UGH MAGNETO WAS A GOOD VILLAIN BECAUSE YOU COULD CLEARLY EMPATHIZE WITH HIM AND UNDERSTAND HIS MOTIVATIONS, UNDERSTAND WHERE HE WENT WRONG AND WENT TOO FAR AND WHAT THE ATROCITIES DID TO HIM. HE WASN’T EVIL JUST BECAUSE. HE WAS COMPELLING BECAUSE HE COULD BE SYMPATHIZED WITH, AND HYDRA IS THE TYPE OF ENEMY THAT SHOULD NOT EVOKE SYMPATHY IN THE AUDIENCE. THERE LITERALLY IS NOTHING FURTHER FROM HIS CHARACTER THAN JOINING A NAZI ORGANIZATION.

😉💕 @cenkrett, @socio–flower

Uncanny X-Men vol. 3, no. 32 (2015) variant cover by Phil Noto

Magneto is the greatest comic book character of all time.