Spiderman's Politically Correct Replacement 608
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. "
Re:PC? (Score:0, Interesting)
(Note: This being the internet, I expect some of you may interpret this as a specific attack toward blacks and Latinos. That's not exactly what I meant, I'm just sick of people demanding preferential treatment in the name of equality, whoever they are. Be it gender or ethnicity, the vocal groups never seem to want to be treated fairly, they want to be treated better than everyone else. It's actually feminists that get on my nerves more than anyone else, but that's irrelevant.)
One of the great downfalls of the civil rights movement is that when minorities found voice and actually got the powers that be to consider them relevant, they wound up using it as an excuse to take power, not become equals. For example, 150 years of black oppression and the backswing of the pendulum is exactly what you're complaining about.
A truly equal, non-racial society would be colorblind both in protection and promotion. But that's not really what anyone who fights for minority rights wants: the motivation is power. Power over whites? Eh, I don't think civil leaders would ever stop crowing about how much more advantage the white man has. More, it's power over the preferential treatments of other minorities. You see it all the time, for instance, in talking about illegal immigration from Haiti versus illegal immigration from Cuba versus illegal immigration from Mexico.
It's quite interesting now because it's all repeating with the heightened awareness LGBT rights issues. In 40 to 50 years you can expect that sexual preference and identity would also find itself thrown into the ring to fight amongst other minority groups.
Re:PC? (Score:5, Interesting)
I live in Argentina. I was born and raised here. Contrary to what most people in the US believes, most countries in South America have a wide racial diversity, with original inhabitants (aborigenes) being a minority in many of those countries. Regardless, we don't have racial issues (at least in most countries, certainly not in Argentina), and no PC bullshit (You can call someone "negro" or "negrito", it's usually a kind word, and can be used regardless of your actual skin color, that is, people usually call you negro or negrito even if you are white, and it's seen as a sign of affection, a kind word). We see ourselves as Americans, since America is the name of the entire continent (regardless of how US citizens use the word), and you'll hear people in South America talk about American history (refering to the history of the entire continent, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego), American people, American cultures, etc, etc. We use "America" and "Americano" in our songs, to refer to people from anywhere in either North, South or Central America.
Latino is a fucking stupid word, since technically it defines anyone that speaks a Romance language, so, by definition, "Latino" includes lots of European countries (France, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Italia, etc). By this definition, the fucking stupid pope is "Latino", and so where the Romans.
Since it's about language and not race, it also includes, for example, all Brazilians, Including a big part of their population who is black (descendants from former slaves bought from Africa). By the stupid PC standard used in the US, those should be called African-American too ;)
So, No, nobody that is from South America will identify as a "Latino", except for the stupid soldouts (either those that didn't have the balls to stay and emigrated to the US, or those that drank all the cool aid and actually identify with so called 'urban' culture, such as most Puerto Rican youth.