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    1. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat 18 Oct 2020

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      Siegel and Shuster created superman before US entered war. They didn’t fist fight anyone. https://twitter.com/meakoopa/status/1317599517135568896 …

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    2. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat 18 Oct 2020

      Simon and kirby’s captain America wasn’t really advocating for entry into war either. And comics was a very segregated medium. You’re not anti fascist in the us if you’re fine with anti black racism.

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    3. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat 18 Oct 2020

      Superheroes have fascist and anti fascist aspects but the Jewish identity of some creators is not a get out of fascism free card now and forever for the genre, unfortunately.

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    4. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat 18 Oct 2020

      Comics by white Jewish ppl at the time used grotesque anti Asian and anti black caricatures and stereotypes. Wonder Woman used antisemitic ones too.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Oct 2020
      Replying to @nberlat

      Describing people in the 1930s and 1940s as "white Jewish people" is at best anachronistic and at worst blinkered. Global white supremacy (in the form of Nazis, KKK, and other groups) did NOT see Jews as white.

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    6. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation 19 Oct 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet @nberlat

      But that didn't mean that they weren't already being considered White here in the U.S., which is the relevant geography of this discussion. By the 1930s, Jews of Western European descent were already making their way into White adjacency.

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    7. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation 19 Oct 2020
      Replying to @dropoutnation @HeerJeet @nberlat

      The securing of that status is one reason why the New York Times didn't make many waves about the Shoah - even though evidence of Nazis murdering Jews was already out there and reported in other outlets.

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    8. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation 19 Oct 2020
      Replying to @dropoutnation @HeerJeet @nberlat

      Additionally: Just because Jews weren't considered full White at that point doesn't mean that White Jewish people weren't engaging in aiding and abetting White Supremacy. The comics they drew were racist in some pretty stark ways and that can't be ignored.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Oct 2020
      Replying to @dropoutnation @nberlat

      No question about the racism -- which I do think was about gaining white status (the role of Jewish performers in minstrelry parallels this). You can see this in Eisner in particular.

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        2. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation 19 Oct 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @nberlat

          In many ways, the desire to claim White status was something that Western European Jews were already on the verge of attaining in full measure - and was being acquired by Eastern European Jews even when the Western European ones didn't want any association with them.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Oct 2020
          Replying to @dropoutnation @nberlat

          Right -- there's a push to being white and also a redefining of white but that's not the same as being white. They weren't unequivocally white -- and indeed bore the marks of their outsider status more than earlier waves of German Jews.

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