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Spiderman's Politically Correct Replacement
jbarr writes "In the latest Marvel Comic series 'Ultimate Fallout,' Miles Morales replaces Peter Parker who has been killed off by the Green Goblin. Morales is a half-black, half-Latino teen, and the creators haven't ruled out that he might be gay. From the article: 'Marvel's editor in chief Axel Alonso denied that having a black Spider Man was a publicity stunt. 'What you have is a Spider-Man for the 21st century who's reflective of our culture and diversity. As someone who grew up on a steady diet of Luke Cage, Hero For Hire and Shang Chi, Master of Kung Fu, I am personally invested,' he said. "
I am so ready for another comic-book crush.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Oh, poor fucking you, to suffer a small measure of the bullshit that minorites in this country have been dealing with forever. What a truly bleak age it is when a perfectly good white boy can no longer expect to coast simply by being a member of the privileged class.
That would be going too far.
You know that muslims can't be portrayed as the good guys, in the news, in games, and of course not in comics.
HeShe has it's panties in a bunch.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Nobody cares.