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sabotabbyI normally don't just post a link but I need everyone to read the Magneto essay that's going around so we can talk about how great it is. It's one of the best pieces of literary analysis I've seen in a good long time.
The Judgment of Magneto
The Judgment of Magneto
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Date: 2024-04-25 04:06 pm (UTC)Here (your journal in general, I think) via lcohen.
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Date: 2024-04-25 10:13 pm (UTC)So it wasn’t his originally, but he coopted and popularized it. Thankfully most people still ascribe its original meaning to it, rather than his nationalist version.
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Date: 2024-04-26 09:30 am (UTC)*puts on glasses*
Defector? The refugees of the old Gawker sports blog?
In it, Marvel’s master of magnetism, who is also the company’s most famous Jewish character
Ben Grimm erasure!
If the X-Men can be read as crypto-Jews
Not by design, but I feel like every generation has a group that claims the X-men as allegory. That said, I am sure that Claremont was partially Jewish seems news to me.
Admittedly, Meir Kahane seems new to me.
This is actually an interesting essay - and I don't often say that.
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Date: 2024-04-26 10:40 am (UTC)Most early superheroes (including the big guy) are crypto-Jews, owing to the experiences of their Jewish creators.
Meir Kahane was a real piece of shit, so if you want to be deeply horrified, read up on him.
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Date: 2024-04-26 10:53 am (UTC)Now. I reckon pre-2000s it was different. But I had to argue.
Meir Kahane was a real piece of shit, so if you want to be deeply horrified, read up on him.
I love to be horrified!
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Date: 2024-04-26 02:11 pm (UTC)Looked at as a whole, Claremont's X-Men run is deeply concerned with exploring the Holocaust and it's aftermath, much in the same way that nuclear war and The Bomb is a major thread in Grant Morrison's work.
(Also, Dark Phoenix is about Kabballah)
Maybe when the MCU Fantastic Four movie comes out, Aunt Petunia's ever-lovin' blue-eyed boy will get the respect he deserves?
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Date: 2024-04-26 02:32 pm (UTC)I can't disagree. I think I liked X-Men as outsiders because... I Was A Teenage Outsider.
I've seen them used as a metaphor for most movements, but not Jewishness (that said I will pull out one of my favourite New Mutant issues here: Kitty's "We Were Only Foolin'" speech, so it all works).
(Also, Dark Phoenix is about Kabballah)
I have somehow never read the Dark Phoenix saga completely, and my knowledge of the Kabballah is limited, but I am actually surprised.
Maybe when the MCU Fantastic Four movie comes out, Aunt Petunia's ever-lovin' blue-eyed boy will get the respect he deserves?
I am not sure he can get any respect. As soon as he wins, he loses. Really, if Ben had retired in Secret Wars, the character would have been better served. Comics allows only limited evolution.
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Date: 2024-04-26 02:46 pm (UTC)Claremont was also involved with the Wiccan scene in New York in the 70s/80s, up to being a guest at a Wiccan convention, so it's another one of those big influences that isn't immediately obvious.
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Date: 2024-04-26 02:50 pm (UTC)Wiccan scene: not even remotely obvious.
But I know Marvel in that age was wild.
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