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Join Date: Jan 2008
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To be able to listen, and perhaps learn from all kinds of respectful discourse is a gift not all have to take advantage of.
Way to SAY it. Yeah, I totally agree. I'm all for discussing political views, sure. But to say that Cap would agree with my views, just because I know the character well (yet not basing said view on quotable evidence) is the how the white-power spouting racists in his own magazine start to make the most trouble.
I'll give an example:
1. Aryan Brotherhood says that Cap supports sending the Falcon and his neighborhood to Africa.
2. Cap goes to confront them, coincidentally at the same time that they are being fire-bombed by a reactionary group.
3. In saving the brotherhood, his picture is taken shielding the building from a molotov cocktail and stirs up more hatred.
4. Addressing the issue peacefully, he is attacked by enraged and ignorant people (ignorant of his reasoning.) and becomes a figurehead for a group he doesn't support and the actions he supports even less. (Was it "heroes return", "sentinel of liberty", or "Steve Rogers..." ?)
So...bravo for having such strong moral fortitude.
I'm just saying that everyone should be careful whose reputations they're putting on the line.
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Just because one would disagree with me [and be wrong] doesn't make them a bad person or unpatriotic)
Man is THAT a good quote.
Jolly Rogers
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