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John Weeks Profile picture
@john_weeks
May 27, 2018 • 9 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
How to explain #ComicsGate:
thenib.com/comicsgate-spe…
In the USA, one of the biggest selling genres is the "superhero" genre.
"Superheroes" are dominated by licensed properties from two large companies, Marvel Comics and DC Comics.
Of the comics in the USA that are licensed Superhero properties created by Marvel and DC...
A small subset of fans (USA, not global) feel 'ownership' over these corporate owned properties which they do not legally own.
Specifically, of the millions of fans of Marvel and DC licensed superhero properties all over the world, some (white) USA fans are upset to see people of color, LGBTQA included in the properties.
These white fans in the USA are harassing creators / fans of current and updated Marvel / DC licensed superhero properties.
However, they are a tiny slice of global fandom. And an even tinier fringe group in the context of global comics (i.e. Eurocomics, Manga) where superheroes and the USA themselves are a minority of products and fanbases.
Writing this from Cambodia which has its own unique comics tradition (and no superheroes).

They couldn't be bothered with USA fan politics.

phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/m…

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Sep 17, 2018
Children are anarchic.

When they're young, parents are by necessity authoritarian communists. (From each parent according to their ability, to each (baby) according to their (often loudly crying need.) (1/x)
Inside the home parents are largely authoritarian depending on the age of the child.

Indoctrination of children is taken care of by schooling systems which almost invariably have components of fascism. If you disagree, you've never been to a USA pep rally. (2/x)
Anarchic children endure authoritarian communism at home and rule-based fascism at school, often confusingly applied with affection from elders.

This tends to produce teenagers that are sullen libertarians in character and deed: "leave me alone", "don't touch my stuff" (3/x)
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Aug 18, 2018
@Castantine @Volceltaire @jeremymstamper @preciouspearl4 @kathygriffin @AmazingDouglass @Amy_Siskind @AngryBlackLady @dianelyssa The schools operated with full support of the US government. see also Aboriginal 'Stolen Generation' (Australia) and Catholic schools (Ireland), huge story in the news this week. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoctrin…
@Castantine @Volceltaire @jeremymstamper @preciouspearl4 @kathygriffin @AmazingDouglass @Amy_Siskind @AngryBlackLady @dianelyssa It's not my job to choose ideological purity or 'Universal Good' for you. That's an individual assessment that a free society permits us to make, unlike what these kids got.
@Castantine @Volceltaire @jeremymstamper @preciouspearl4 @kathygriffin @AmazingDouglass @Amy_Siskind @AngryBlackLady @dianelyssa lol no

Not all working class ppl are owed support. i.e. cops, armed forces who are deployed against other working class people to defend racial injustice at home, imperalism overseas. Ask your local BLM chapter how they feel.

brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/20…
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Aug 15, 2018
1/x For all those who are saying after Washington DC that 'white supremacists are pathetic and divided' - they are biding their time.
2/x The USA was founded a white supremacist country by slave owners and gives us the Electoral College as a result.
Otherwise slave states would have never had any political sway. And that's how Trump got in.
vox.com/policy-and-pol…
3/x The Nazis *admired* USA racial discrimination laws and studied them.
businessinsider.com/why-the-nazis-…
The USA fought them with a segregated army to protect / expand its hegemony.
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Aug 11, 2018
1/x For my lefty twitter pals: I want any gains we can get against bigots, racists, crooks menacing our lives. This didn't change from before November 2016. Some tactics have been refined.
2/x I think .@Ocasio2018's positions should be utterly mainstream and unremarkable. And they would, if she was in the EU.

(That said, I enjoy a good twitter dunking.)
3/x The nature and role of the EU as an economic union without a more binding, cohesive political union is worthy of critique and discussion.

Rejecting it wholesale (Brexit) is atuarkic folly.
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Aug 3, 2018
#FollowFriday Thread August 03 2018

Give .@Scalzi a go, plenty of good observations. Also whatever.scalzi.com
#FollowFriday .@Amy_Siskind's 'The Weekly List' is a handy summary of the crazy week that just went down. Don't let the news cycle spook you.
#FollowFriday
Nick .@Harkaway writes novels, he's got a particularly enjoyable one out now:
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Jul 18, 2018
Thread: USA viewed as 'client state' under political and economic control of Russia.

Already it's exhibiting characteristics of a "post-socialist' / "2nd world" country.

Some characteristics of the worst-off of them? Let a Southeast Asia wonk note some similarities! [1/20]
1. "State Capture:" consolidation of one-party rule under a pretense of multiparty democracy.

(Russian interference on behalf of Trump, Repub gerrymandering, voter 'fraud' laws to suppress Dem turnout.)
[2/20]
2. Complete repudiation of prior political regime.

(Trump's zeal to undo all Obama administration achievements i.e Iran Deal, Affordable Care Act) [3/20]
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