Elites lean Democratic, right?

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Staluigi: Jun 22, 2021

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

This is ops version of elites is the happy merchant. He can't exactly post the photo but he can describe the merchants outline and hope you are "a true believer" enough to know what shape his description makes.

You can't cut ahead in the plot. This has to play out!

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Staluigi: Jun 22, 2021

Cancel Culture is just the biggest "wait not like that" meme by those who used to cancel with wild, dictatorial abandon from the top of society but have since lost the gavel and the hypocritical immunity

Every one of these loud "oh no here comes the woke cancel culture mob" motherfuckers is the ideological descendant of the people who ran code and censorship boards like a loving gestapo, sent theocratic toadbrains to shriek at frank zappa about how the government has to annihilate any music that pastors found obscene, ran literal congressional inquisitions to blacklist unamerican political leanings real or imagined, rigorously scrubbed comics of any affirming portrayal of people of color and had such an aneurysm about the ones that snuck through that Mad Magazine was hate-written in response, etc

# ¿ Oct 24, 2022 00:39

Staluigi: Jun 22, 2021

VitalSigns posted:

Wait what

For real?

Ohh yeah

https://thecensorshipfiles.wordpress.com/volume-1/issue-1/judgment-day/

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In return, the orange robot explains that it is not his fault; the social barriers between the blue and orange robots existed far before he was created so there is very little that he can do about them. Hearing these words, Tarlton decides that Cybrinia is �not yet ready to join the great galactic republic� (7). He storms out of the assembly plant, with his orange companion running frantically behind, and starts back toward his ship.

�Why, Tarlton? Why aren�t we ready?� the bot cries after him (7). Tarlton explains to him that he and the robots of Cybrinia must look inside themselves for the answer to that question. He assures his orange companion that there was also a time like this on Earth, where there seemed to be no hope, but once �mankind on Earth learned to live together, real progress first began� (7).

Figure 4: Last panel of the Judgment Day comic.

Tarlton climbed back into his shining silver spaceship and waved good-bye to the land of Cybrinia. Within seconds, his aircraft was soaring into the infinite void of space and he takes off his space helmet, and shakes his head, and allows the �beads of perspiration on his dark skin to twinkle like distant stars�� (7).

This story was the plot of the 1953 graphic novel �Judgement Day� published by EC Comics and illustrated by Joe Orlando. Although an inspiring story to readers today, this comic was extremely controversial in the 1950s, a time when discrimination of African Americans was still quite prominent. The plot, which scrutinizes a segregated society and features a black astronaut, went against many of the popular beliefs at the time and gave the Comics Code Authority the perfect excuse to drive the publisher, Bill Gaines, out of business (Coville).

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With Judgment Day, the CCA told Gaines and Al Feldstein, the writer of the story, that they could not publish the comic book if the final panel had a black astronaut. For Murphy, the final panel was too controversial for 1950s America, a time when segregation and systemic racism were still accepted parts of society. This story was likely perceived as too critical of contemporary society. This outraged EC and Gaines threatened to sue the Authority.

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Tales From the Crypt: The Official Archives:

This really made �em go bananas in the Code czar�s office. �Judge Murphy was off his nut. He was really out to get us�, recalls [EC editor] Feldstein. �I went in there with this story and Murphy says, �It can�t be a Black man�. But ... but that�s the whole point of the story!� Feldstein sputtered. When Murphy continued to insist that the Black man had to go, Feldstein put it on the line. �Listen�, he told Murphy, �you�ve been riding us and making it impossible to put out anything at all because you guys just want us out of business�. [Feldstein] reported the results of his audience with the czar to [EC�s owner, Bill] Gaines, who was furious [and] immediately picked up the phone and called Murphy. �This is ridiculous!� he bellowed. �I�m going to call a press conference on this. You have no grounds, no basis, to do this. I�ll sue you�. Murphy made what he surely thought was a gracious concession. �All right. Just take off the beads of sweat�. At that, Gaines and Feldstein both went ballistic. �gently caress you!� they shouted into the telephone in unison. Murphy hung up on them, but the story ran in its original form.

# ¿ Oct 24, 2022 23:03

Staluigi: Jun 22, 2021

No yeah it was that comic censors were so loving insane and so desperate to kill off commentary on societal injustice that they drove a group of comic artists to go all in on Mad Magazine in response

# ¿ Oct 25, 2022 02:43

Staluigi: Jun 22, 2021

GoutPatrol posted:

Was that Deep Space 9 episode where it's set in the 50s based off that comic?

When I watched it I assumed it one hundred percent had to be the case that it was conceived in reference to that event but I don't have any explicit confirmation of that

# ¿ Oct 25, 2022 03:51

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