TRUTH, JUSTICE, ALL THAT STUFF
Apr. 30th, 2011 08:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogITEM: In Action Comics #900, Superman says he’s going to renounce his US citizenship.
You can see the reaction coming a mile away, can’t you?
No surprise, of course – we’ve been here before when conservatives freaked out over one line in Superman Returns, and my opinion hasn’t changed.
Namely, the only reason Superman was fundamentally American (apart from being invented by Americans) was that he grew up there and took America’s side in WW2 and the Cold War.
Which was fine in the last century. But the world has changed, as has America’s role in it. The rest of the world doesn’t blindly follow our example and take our word for it anymore, and as long as Superman is an American citizen – and technically a vigilante serving in a crime-fighting capacity, dispensing justice with superpowers, anything he does in another country is going to be interpreted as a reflection of US policy. And sooner or later that's going to be a liability whether people like Cal Thomas like it or not.
And either way, it makes no sense for an alien from another planet to have citizenship in just one country out of a couple hundred on an entire planet. As if Superman needs a visa to go anywhere.
Also, a word for Cal: I am a reader of comics and I know perfectly well what the word "construed" means.
Global citizen,
This is dF
You can see the reaction coming a mile away, can’t you?
No surprise, of course – we’ve been here before when conservatives freaked out over one line in Superman Returns, and my opinion hasn’t changed.
Namely, the only reason Superman was fundamentally American (apart from being invented by Americans) was that he grew up there and took America’s side in WW2 and the Cold War.
Which was fine in the last century. But the world has changed, as has America’s role in it. The rest of the world doesn’t blindly follow our example and take our word for it anymore, and as long as Superman is an American citizen – and technically a vigilante serving in a crime-fighting capacity, dispensing justice with superpowers, anything he does in another country is going to be interpreted as a reflection of US policy. And sooner or later that's going to be a liability whether people like Cal Thomas like it or not.
And either way, it makes no sense for an alien from another planet to have citizenship in just one country out of a couple hundred on an entire planet. As if Superman needs a visa to go anywhere.
Also, a word for Cal: I am a reader of comics and I know perfectly well what the word "construed" means.
Global citizen,
This is dF
