Because he’s Scottish and doesn’t appreciate a day devoted to a Saint that literally burnt all the books of Ireland to remove “the devil’s influence”?
I mean, I sure as fuck don’t like St. Patrick’s Day, and I *am* Irish. Like, descended from the creepily-long-lived Irish kings Irish on one side, and the poor “escape the fucking British-created potato famine” on the other.
Fuck St. Patrick’s Day. It’s another marketing bullshit holiday that the United States adopted because cheap excuse to party. Green beer. Green shakes. Pinch someone for not wearing green–yes, there’s a great excuse for a man to pinch a woman on the ass and have a a defensible reason…
…I don’t like the day.
^^^^
I’m with Flamethrower on the subject of St. Patrick’s.
my 16 yearr old son is watching over my shoulder and we’re both crying
I use this in my cheder classes at synagogue when we’re learning about Gemilut Chasidim, acts of loving kindness. It’s really important to start the message off with the point that no religion corners the market on that concept. This is an amazing and life affirming commercial of all things. Brilliant.
“Steeb, Marvel seems to think that they can write you as a Nazi.”
“Welp. Well, you see, these are straight, cis-gendered, white, Christian-raised men with a certain level of privilege who have never experienced a day’s oppression in their lives. Their brand of teenage 2edgy4u ‘realness’ is actually just a desperate cry for attention and shows a lack of imagination I can’t even comprehend.”
“But Steeb, won’t this upset a whole bunch of people, given that the Nazis killed millions of innocent people and are widely regarded as absolute scum? Would you ever consider allying yourself with Hydra given that you are a symbol of freedom, hope and goodness?”
“You know and I know that given the seventy year continuity there is no way I am Hydra. To make me Hydra completely devalues everything I have stood for, and also makes a mockery of every fan who ever believed they could be a better person by emulating me. In short, this is a farce.”
“Furthermore, it shows how out of touch Marvel is. However progressive it, as a company, tries to be, it still falls at the smallest of hurdles and cannot seem to find a consistent balance. Minorities are still being under-represented, or represented in offensive ways. Pick literally any minority and you can guarantee Marvel has pissed them off in some way. Not even that, but Marvel still cannot write women. Half the species, more or less, and it doesn’t know what to do with its female characters.”
“So, what do you suggest? I don’t want to throw all my Captain America merchandise away because some fuckwit thought Hydra!Cap would be a good idea. I love Steve Rogers. He makes me want to be a better person. The idea that he is a Nazi makes me feel sick. I want to cry. Steeb, what should I do?”
“A lot of people care about what Steve Rogers represents. Things I can recommend to show Marvel how you feel include tweeting, letter writing (old fashioned but it shows a level of dedication), petitions, boycotting the issues in question, and looking elsewhere for entertainment that more accurately portrays a multicultural, diverse cast. If Marvel can’t provide it, someone else will.”
“So, in conclusion, let our voices be heard and vote with our wallets? That sounds like a plan. Any final thoughts?”
“I am not a fucking Nazi. They may write me as one, but the Steve Rogers you know and love would never be a tool of Hydra. I have punched Hitler in the face. I have fought the Red Skull more times than I can count. As far as undercover agents go, to call that a backstory, I would be a terrible one, as I constantly thwart the plans of my ‘employers’. I am not Hydra. Don’t buy the comics, make this run of Captain America the worst selling ever. Make this decision hurt for Marvel as much as it does for us. Take to Twitter and don’t let this drop. Captain America stands for freedom. Freedom of religion, freedom to love who you want, freedom to be who you want to be. It’s the absolute antithesis of Nazism. So no, I’m not a Nazi and some poorly conceived plot to make me into one is not enough to change that. I was created by Jewish people, and I stood against Hitler and the forces of evil for more than seventy years. If this becomes long-term canon, fight it every inch of the way. Even if it’s just a publicity stunt, tell them you won’t stand for it. And if anyone, anyone, tells you that you’re wrong to be angry, look twice at that person, because that might just be a person you don’t want to associate with. Remember, be awesome to each other, and don’t let ignorant writers get you down. There are always more and better comics, all the time, every day. Seek them out. And I guess, if this is final, remember me as I was, not as what they’ll warp me to be. Captain America, Steve Rogers, was never a Nazi.”
Marvel ‘canon’ is basically a bunch of fanfiction sanctioned and sold by the company. It’s been around, changing and evolving, for decades. It’s seen a plethora of different writers and different artists. It’s retconned and changed. Technically in canon, all of these characters should be like seventy years old and dead if we’re insisting on ‘canon accuracy.’
So one writer comes in and says Steve is Hydra, does that ruin Steve as a fictional character? No. It just marks the author as an offensive, misguided, jackass.
Does one fic by a childish person who treats Pepper Potts like shit in a fanfic ruin all fanfic? No it just makes that individual writer a jerk.
We can show our displeasure by not buying this run and by writing letters. But does this ruin who Steve Rogers is, and what he’s stood for since WWII? No.
Do you think the guy in that picture is going to grow up to believe it’s ok to be a part of a racist, xenophobic, homophobic group of murderous skull-fuckers? No.
Even if they whip this around and make it a dream sequence, a what if, or a warning of what could have been, I don’t believe the actual moral character of Steve Rogers would ever make his involvement in such a group remotely possible. He represents the spirit of the old man, standing in the crowd at Stuttgart, saying I will never bow to you! He is the embodiment of people smuggling jews across the borders during the holocaust. The anger of two young men who were accosted for being Jewish during the war. Steve Rogers is not now, nor will he ever be Hydra.
I’ve always thought if I ever got a tattoo, it would be of Steve’s shield because to me he represents standing up for what you believe in, protecting your friends, stopping people from beating up Arnie Roth, punching people with morals like Hitler’s in the face. Would I stop now because of one shitty plotline? No, because Steve Rogers would rather die in the ocean than be a member of a group like Hydra, and we fucking know it.
Doesn’t matter what the press says. Doesn’t matter what the writers or the editors say. Doesn’t matter if the whole Marvel canon decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When Marvel and the press and the whole world tell you that Captain America is a Nazi, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world — “No, fuck you.”
It’s Tuesday. Steve Rogers #1 comes out tomorrow. We only have a short opportunity to kill sales. And make no mistake, killing sales is the ONLY WAY Marvel will listen. Please encourage people to NOT buy the comic this week. Please encourage people to pull it from their pull list. Or, if it was on your pull list, to not buy it. Force the stores to have a blacklog. I normally don’t like to do anything that will hurt the LCS; I’m willing to make an expectation with this.
And MOST of all, please tweet @nickspencer and @Marvel on twitter with your disgust. (I’ve been using #CapIsNotHydra unless someone can think of something better.) They need to know this blatant disregard for Captain America’s Jewish creators and their intentions for the character is unacceptable and not something we will support.
just so everyone know’s nick is retconing caps past so he was helped by some nazi lady or something else bad writery, I’m not going to post any panels from it but I’ve read it and confirm it’s as bad as everyone is thinking, really would recommend skipping it even besides the cap being a nazi thing it’s a total snooze fest
Honestly, this is well intentioned but it’s not just this week you have to worry about because this is a series based on Captain America, a character created in direct response to how Jewish writers felt about Nazis and WWII, being a Marvel equivalent Nazi. So if you just skip this comic and start buying it, they learn nothing. This has already been given at least a five issue run.
This is an entire series you should not buy so that Marvel understands the outrage and hopefully remembers the history that led to Cap and Marvel comics being what they are.
If you want to put an end to this, Don’t Buy Captain America: Steve Rogers. At all.
it’s so scary feeling like you manipulate everyone who loves you just by being Extremely Sad and them noticing it… like… im so sad a lot of the time and i dont want other people to be trapped by that sadness
constantly going “am i being Sad too loudly? am i being Sad too obviously? is this manipulative?” even while in the middle of a crisis
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