I did not see that happen myself, though the word abomination would have been pretty theatrical. Like I said, I know there are actually racist dick heads out there that let race define everything for them. I did not see it anywhere presented like that myself, but I'm definitely sure it happened. I stand corrected and feel fortunate to have missed that because it pisses me off.Zachary Amaranth said:
My whole point was that he has to spend 4 paragraphs doing that because people will just assume he has a race issue with the character. That is the thing that is screwed up about it. Of course he does not want to grouped with a bunch racist assholes, no one does unless you are a racist asshole. But you can't be critical of something because race just happens to be involved without being called a racist, unless you make yourself specifically clear that race has nothing to do with it first. That is some backwards ass shit when you live in a world where people just assume racism despite not having the mark of colorful language or any other indicator of racism. People see it everywhere when they are looking for it. And the belief seems to be that there is some underpinning of racial tension or jealousy or just some form of narcissistic superiority behind it. I don't buy it. People are allowed to have a preference of Peter Parker over Miles Morales without being racist. In this case, race just happens to be involved, but people hated Ben Reilly as Spiderman and he was another white guy. He just wasn't Peter Parker.
I don't buy your definition of "libtard". Yours is just as made up as mine is. If you Google the definition of "libtard", the first thing you are greeted with is an alternate word for "libertarian". And as a libertarian, I can safely say that I have not ever been called that. So there is another made up definition for you. In Urban dictionary (the best internet dictionary around, or at least the most fun), you then see "Portmanteu of "liberal" and "retard"". In my circle of friends (the few that politics come up in), that is usually a funny go to word for people who are typically liberal but use liberal ideas to a fault, using them to justify stupid things.
In this case, my position was simply one of questioning whether widespread racism actually existed about the issue, or if the assumption was just racism all the time. Pretty much everyone told me that the ladder half was true. Makes it witch hunt, which is not a positive thing. Once again, we all know that there are racists out there (a good friend once told me that the most racist people out there were Puerto Ricans. I don't really believe that, but I am inclined to believe my Puerto Rican friend about the issue). Racism exists in every culture. But that does not make it the strongest or central part of any of them. And comic culture is no different than that.
In response to your comment about being critical of Obama: It literally happened all over the internet. The main difference seems to be that in the end, you voted for him and I did not. We may have been equally critical with a different outcome, but since I don't identify as a Democrat/Liberal, I was called a racist. You can sit there and deny that it happened to people a lot, but it did. You could not comment on a news article without being accused of hating Obama because of his skin color at least a handful of times. I'm over it, but it still happened and still shows the inherent issues with constant playing of the "race card" in all the mediums it comes up in.
