Incredible Hulk #256, February 1981.
“When did comics get political??!?!!!”
She’s named after a brand of houmous? I’m not sure how I feel about that.
Why did Hulk go to the Middle-East to look for peace? Is he stupid?
The rage clouds his thinking!
I don’t think the author ever intended for this to be as relevant as it is right now.
Are you really this angry at a comic book character?
I thought it was funny, just laid on top of everything we’ve seen, its such a wildly different expectation for how theyd act. These days theyd call those kids Hamas and shed 100% be chasing after Hulk lol.
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“Art can’t address real things!”
If they aren’t angry at the comic then they are suggesting Israeli people cannot feel empathy which is very fucked up.
I understand that saying Israelis can’t feel empathy is obviously not true, but I think it is a somewhat understandable exaggeration, since it’s kinda hard to protest a state but not it’s people.
People do do it (it’s what I’m doing rn) but it is also understandable that people consider the native of a certain nations to be responsible for it’s states actions.
It is a bit hypocritical though, as for example we definitely don’t hold North Koreans responsible for Kim’s actions, but we do sort of think Chinese people are more free to protest their government than North Koreans, but I don’t think we assign the Chinese with a whole lot of agency. Then Russians? I think (and I realise this is my opinion about the opinions of others) we think Russians have a bit more but similar levels of freedom to China when it comes to criticising the government. Perhaps we also think Russia is so large and basically education in some parts is so poor it’s also a contributing factor.
But Israel… ? I think everyone at least used to consider Israel a rather democratic country. So we assign more moral agency to Israelites for their state’s actions compared to the others I mentioned.
But you are right in that a people is not the same as the state with the same name.
I clash with Lemmys Russians all the time, but I still quite enjoy this song:
I can’t help but defaulting to generalising and othering sometimes, because we’re all people, and we can’t be perfect all the time. It does mean, however, that we can always strive for moral perfection, despite knowing we will never actually achieve it.
Are you really this angry that you felt the need to peoject your anger onto someone else who displayed no signs of anger?
Look at the title. They are either angry at a comic book character or they are suggesting Israeli’s cannot feel empathy which is even more fucked up.
Why do you assume anger?
They are suggesting Israel doesn’t have empathy, which is based on a true story. They keep electing Netanyahu who is blatantly corrupt because he focuses the populace’s anger against Palestinians with a very high level of support and dehumanizing Palestinians is extremely common in Israel.
Although it is likely the superhero pictured is like Captain America, where they are the embodiment of what the country says they are and not who they actually are.
I presume anger because racism is the other option and frankly anger is more likely (I hope).
“They keep electing Netanyahu” is that how the Israeli Parliamentary elections work? I thought they worked like every Parliament where people choose parties that combine to form a government who then select an executive. Oh shit wait that’s exactly how Israel chooses it’s PM too, so no one is electing Bibi other than the parliamentarians voting. Israelis choose parties whose coalitions choose Netanyahu.
And again suggesting an individual cannot feel empathy because of their national origin is at the very least fucked up and never should be encouraged.
That is like saying the people in the US don’t elect the president because the Electoral College does.
I mean I’m definitely not with that Israeli bootlicking dude, but it’s genuinely pretty rare how the US does not have direct presidential elections, like most developed democracies.
Luckily the states can sort of do away with it at anytime without a federal shit of any kind, by just promising to vote according to the popular vote. Many states have already done it imo
Our shitty system was designed by the wealthy land owning elite to keep control over the elections by putting a wall between the voting public and the presidency that could override the popular vote and also give more power to the slave owning states that had a lower voting eligible population.
It is a shit system that should have been replaced a long, long time ago.
No, not at all. The US electorate votes on a Presidential candidate that the electoral college selects. Israel does not vote for a specific leader. Are you unaware how parliamentary elections work because it seems like you have zero clue.
The people vote for the members of parliment that vote for the PM.
Are you unable to understand the obvious comparison?
