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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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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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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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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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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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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Replying to @dropoutnation @nberlat
Really depends on where you're talking about. Would Charles Lindbergh and his followers have seen American Jews as the same as good White Americans? I think the white status of Jews didn't really solidify until 1950s/1960s.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @dropoutnation
so, trying not to be overly irritated here, but as you're aware, I am in fact Jewish, and if you could not condescend to me about Jewish relationship to whiteness that would be cool.
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I know you're Jewish which is why I find your conflation of Jewishness and whiteness in the 1930s/1940s all the more puzzling!
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