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Frank Miller said it best: "The fundament of a superhero is the guy in tights saving innocent people from bad things. It's amazing how infrequently that seems to happen in superhero comics these days."

Yeah, I find it hard to believe Frank Miller said it, but he did.
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Batgirl III wrote: Fri Mar 26, 2021 9:09 pm Frank Miller said it best: "The fundament of a superhero is the guy in tights saving innocent people from bad things. It's amazing how infrequently that seems to happen in superhero comics these days."

Yeah, I find it hard to believe Frank Miller said it, but he did.
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So apparently Ta-Nehisi Coates' take on the Red Skull is to have him basically use Dr. Jordan Peterson's philosophy to spead evil.

Say what you will about Dr. Peterson, love him or hate him, but putting his words into the mouth of a literal Nazi is just . . . wrong.
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I think Coates has it out for the guy. This makes what, three-four times now Coates has took a hard jab at Peterson's Philosophy?
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I mean, I can understand that. A philosophy where personal accountability and taking responsibility for yourself is like Kryptonite to Coates.
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Ares wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 8:39 pm I mean, I can understand that. A philosophy where personal accountability and taking responsibility for yourself is like Kryptonite to Coates.
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Jordan Peterson? He shouldn't be used for the Red Skull. He's more like the fake Captain America from the fifties, the one with the cult.
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csyphrett wrote: Thu Apr 08, 2021 8:16 pm Jordan Peterson? He shouldn't be used for the Red Skull. He's more like the fake Captain America from the fifties, the one with the cult.
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The truly insulting thing about using Peterson as model for Red Skull is that, prior to his shooting to internet prominence for his criticism of Bill C-16 in 2016, Peterson was best known for his work studying and explaining the reasoning and motivations for individuals allowing their identity to become entwined with extremist belief systems to the point they are willing to commit atrocities to defend those beliefs. His academic work was groundbreaking in studying the psychology of atrocities such as the Soviet Gulags, National Socialist extermination camps like Auschwitz, and the Rwandan genocide.

Peterson literally wrote the book on how Neo National Socialists, et. al., recruit members... and, no, this isn’t how they do it.
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Batgirl III wrote: Fri Apr 09, 2021 5:16 amPeterson was best known for his work studying and explaining the reasoning and motivations for individuals allowing their identity to become entwined with extremist belief systems to the point they are willing to commit atrocities to defend those beliefs
So Ta-Nehisi Coates didn't like being part of Peterson's case study?
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I’m just assuming that Ta-Nehisi Coates never read anything Peterson ever wrote. God knows the man has clearly never read a Captain America comic book...

I’ve read two of Coates’ books, his 2008 “memoir” The Beautiful Struggle* and 2015’s Between the World and Me**, plus maybe a half-dozen comics that he’s written and numerous editorials and essays in newspapers/news magazines. So when I say that I think the man is a disgustingly virulent racist who has an incredibly warped view of human history, American society, and western civilization I want to assure you I came by that conclusion honestly.

Peterson? I don’t know his writings as well. I read some of his psychological studies about extremist identity, like, twenty-ish years ago back when I was in university. I bought his Twelve Rules book when it first came out, mostly because of the “controversy” surrounding it... I had only gotten about 3/4 of the way through it when it got lost (along with the rest of my suitcase) on a red-eye flight. It was all about personal responsibility, building a sense of self-worth through self-sufficiency, and maintaining emotional balance. Peterson probably didn’t intend it, but it was basically “Marcus Aurelius for Dummies.” Now, sure, I can understand that a lot of people might not agree with it, but I can only conclude the people who find it controversial have never read it.

But, really, Coates is incredibly off-target by comparing him to the Red Skull (or vice-versa). It would be a great act of schadenfreude-y justice for Peterson to use Canada’s libel laws to take on Coates... But I doubt that will happen.

* I use air quotes here because, he was in his early thirties when he wrote it. It’s not so much a “memoir” as a 240 page exercise in exploring the man’s daddy issues.[/quote]

** Which is framed as a “letter to his teenage son,” and basically seems to have the goal of making sure his son grows up with the same broken world view his own father instilled in him.[/quote]
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Just Some Guy has a video about it.
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Ken wrote: Fri Apr 09, 2021 2:16 pm
Batgirl III wrote: Fri Apr 09, 2021 5:16 amPeterson was best known for his work studying and explaining the reasoning and motivations for individuals allowing their identity to become entwined with extremist belief systems to the point they are willing to commit atrocities to defend those beliefs
So Ta-Nehisi Coates didn't like being part of Peterson's case study?
Batgirl III wrote: Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:55 pm when I say that I think the man is a disgustingly virulent racist who has an incredibly warped view of human history, American society, and western civilization I want to assure you I came by that conclusion honestly.
I didn't come by that conclusion through anything but gut instinct. I just figured anyone who compares Peterson with the Red Skull is entwined in an extremist belief system.
Ken wrote: Fri Apr 09, 2021 2:16 pmPeterson probably didn’t intend it, but it was basically “Marcus Aurelius for Dummies.”
I don't know why, but I find the idea of “Marcus Aurelius for Dummies” highly amusing.
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I don't know why this came up with Peterson and Coats. It kind of reminds me of Howard Tayler and the Seven Habits guy so Tayler had to change his Seven Habits to 77 rules (the first being pillage, then burn in that order) I do know that Peterson is known for saying there is no white privilege so the people in charge built their countries the way they wanted and that's how it is. Don't like it, go somewhere else.

My son said he's a crappier Dr. OZ, or a better spoken Alex Jones.
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csyphrett wrote: Sat Apr 10, 2021 8:46 pmI don't know why this came up with Peterson and Coats.
Probably because Coates wrote the comic book in question and because besides the "Rules for Life" there is a specific mention in the comics of order and chaos, which Peterson himself admits are among his main themes.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u5cMqItvCc

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