So on the one hand I really want to support the Black Panther movie because it is like a really big deal and massive step forward for representation for Black people.
And if it doesn’t do well we all know they will use it as an excuse to never do anything like this again.
But on the other hand I really really really do not want to give money to Marvel what with their whole “everyone is actually a nazi now” and shitting on the legacy of the Jewish people who created it, and making Magneto a Jewish Holocaust survivor a nazi, and their overall whitewashing of Jewish and Romani people and general shittyness to both of us.
So basically I don’t really know what to do because I want to be supportive because this is a really big deal and I think it is important with what is going on with Black Panther.
But I also really don’t want to give Marvel money like I have being boycotting them about 3 years now.
If anyone has any advice I that would be great.
I was just thinking about this yesterday. I’d been looking forward to Black Panther for so long, to the point that I’d been planning to go see it in theaters. I almost never go see movies in theaters because it almost always gives me migraines and causes severe back pain, especially action movies. But that’s how much I wanted to see and support this! But with all the shit marvel is doing lately….I don’t know anymore, I feel so conflicted. It is so important to support media featuring Black people, but I don’t want marvel to think this anti-semitic and anti-Romani shit is ok.
Maybe if I also donate the same amount of money as I spend on the ticket (and possibly concessions) to something like the Holocaust museum, and if I have the opportunity I can say the donation is because of what marvel is doing?
that is actually a really good idea.
i didn’t think of that
Go see it and if you feel guilty donate to a holocaust museum or organization.
But if we don’t see it, Marvel isn’t going to see your boycott of nazi media they’re going to see that the public won’t see movies with black people as leads
I very briefly had this same dilemma, but here is the thing. Boycotts are great, but they generally involve you speaking to a company in their language- money. For a company like Marvel, who is sending out feelers in a lot of directions (not all of them good) trying to figure out what the public will pay the most for, it’s literally up to us, as consumers, to tell them.
And for them to understand, we have to speak their language.
If you want them to stop making a certain storyline (for instance, all this nazi Cap bullshit), those are the products you boycott. Those are the times when you utilize negative reinforcement by taking away ‘their’ money and sending it to the opposite cause (for instance, the holocaust museum) and then tell the misbehaving company that money that could have been theirs went to someone else because they are being terrible about X thing.
Sometimes, we run into situations like the one we’re in- where a company doing shitty things does a good thing. That is 100% the time to break out your positive reinforcement bat and beat them to death with it to let them know you want them to do the good thing again, or more. And again, additionally contacting them in some way to say “I don’t normally support you because of XYZ bad things, but you did a Good, so I paid you for it” doesn’t hurt.
So please, go see this movie. If it is good, see it multiple times. Yell at Marvel with your money, to tell them you want more things like this and less things like nazis. Make numbers they can’t ignore.
I thought Marvel Studios is completely split, both creatively and financially, from Marvel Comics. Kevin Feige just went “fuck this shit I’m out”.
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