If 'Earth' stands in for America (and it so often does, dominant culture, forces etc) It def. did in this case, considering all the human actors were American. Which is a DC Comics thing in general.
then there's no way 'Earth' ever does anything wrong enough that anyone can Sanction them. ...yeah. Though imagining otherwise is an occasional non-USAian fantasy. (I wonder if that wasn't fueling some of the fairly awful things I had the characters say - Americians Earth people, not as top of the pile as they think.)
Displeasure is the job of toothless journalists writing leftist sob stories. In this case... her editorial - how the writers would have us interpret the story - was basically "I don't know if anyone noticed, but genocide? Kind of an atrocity. But never mind that, because now is the time for 'healing'. Which, since everyone else is dead, means for *us* to heal from the idea we are bad people who should feel bad. Feeling bad sucks. Instead, let's all try to forget this ever happened. American Dream: Yay!"
Admittedly, this is not far off from other articles I've read, so great for realism I guess. But it is still NOT THE MORAL I WANT from anything ever.
accepting of an exceptional minority individual but any more than one would equal, to their minds, invasion and oppression and the end of life as they'd comfortably known it. Argh. Like, I KNOW this is a fear of white people everywhere, but how steeped in it can you be to publish a story where that fear is taken to logical conclusion, to which the reaction is: *shrug*. (They might have twigged if the Kryptonians weren't portrayed as majority white, but there are so many racial metaphors built into aliens in fiction...)
Superman is now on a journey to walk across America, to better connect with the 'Earth''s people. (I am not reading it.) Obviously that was the problem.
It's never genocide when the conquerors do it - it's expansion, manifest destiny, and the protection of their (the proper) way of life. That's why I threw in a dig at the "United Planets" meme - There is no "utopia" there once you introduce a scorched non-Earth policy; it's a horror story, like all the rl stories about Empire building. Through I suppose it's always a better view from the centre.
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Date: 2010-09-15 09:07 pm (UTC)It def. did in this case, considering all the human actors were American. Which is a DC Comics thing in general.
then there's no way 'Earth' ever does anything wrong enough that anyone can Sanction them.
...yeah. Though imagining otherwise is an occasional non-USAian fantasy. (I wonder if that wasn't fueling some of the fairly awful things I had the characters say -
AmericiansEarth people, not as top of the pile as they think.)Displeasure is the job of toothless journalists writing leftist sob stories.
In this case... her editorial - how the writers would have us interpret the story - was basically "I don't know if anyone noticed, but genocide? Kind of an atrocity. But never mind that, because now is the time for 'healing'. Which, since everyone else is dead, means for *us* to heal from the idea we are bad people who should feel bad. Feeling bad sucks. Instead, let's all try to forget this ever happened. American Dream: Yay!"
Admittedly, this is not far off from other articles I've read, so great for realism I guess. But it is still NOT THE MORAL I WANT from anything ever.
accepting of an exceptional minority individual but any more than one would equal, to their minds, invasion and oppression and the end of life as they'd comfortably known it.
Argh. Like, I KNOW this is a fear of white people everywhere, but how steeped in it can you be to publish a story where that fear is taken to logical conclusion, to which the reaction is: *shrug*. (They might have twigged if the Kryptonians weren't portrayed as majority white, but there are so many racial metaphors built into aliens in fiction...)
Superman is now on a journey to walk across America, to better connect with the 'Earth''s people. (I am not reading it.) Obviously that was the problem.
It's never genocide when the conquerors do it - it's expansion, manifest destiny, and the protection of their (the proper) way of life.
That's why I threw in a dig at the "United Planets" meme - There is no "utopia" there once you introduce a scorched non-Earth policy; it's a horror story, like all the rl stories about Empire building. Through I suppose it's always a better view from the centre.