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PetrusMonsFormicarum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-10 06:27 PM
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Marvel boycotted by White Supremacist group
Those confused Aryan folk have been lately running out of targets, but they found one in Marvel's upcoming feature film based on the Thor comics series. I'm sure that Marvel is trembling in their spandex over the fifteen movie tickets they are now not going to sell.

Marvel Comics became a right wing target earlier this year after publishing a comic in which Captain America “undermined” the Tea Party. Now the Disney-owned company has come under fire for having black actor Idris Elba play a “whites only” role in the movie adaptation of ‘Thor.’ You can’t make this stuff up.
Fundamentalist group Council of Conservative Citizens joined a boycott of the Kenneth Branagh-directed ‘Thor’, because, according to the group, Elba has no right to be playing Norse god Heimdel, because all Norse gods, real people who exist, are Aryan.

“It’s not enough that Marvel attacks conservatives values, now mythological Gods must be re-invented with black skin,” they write. “It seems that Marvel Studios believes that white people should have nothing that is unique to themselves.”

Another post attacks Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ series for sympathizing with independent South Africa, and Kyle Rogers, who heads the Council’s South Carolina chapter, lamented, “Marvel has taken their anti-white, radical campaign even further. They cast a black man as a Norse Deity.”


The rest of this ludicrous story at: http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/41108/marvel-boycotted-by-white-supremacists/
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 11:48 PM
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1. I don't recall them howling when the cast of Daredevil was announced.
Come on! If you're going to be a regressive, racist troglodyte, at least try to be consistent about it.
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