How Superman Smashes the Klan and Fights for a Better Tomorrow

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  @BleydTorvall · 4 years ago

  The slow face turn of Chuck is an important lesson of its own.  People don't typically change at a moment's notice, even if they may want to change.  It's important not to reject the imperfect people who want to be better, but rather to encourage them and guide them in the right direction.  Rejection only makes it more likely that they'll fail in any attempt to change, or worse, affirm their original beliefs so that they no longer want to change.

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  @andrewjohnson6716 · 3 years ago

  The very first "villain" in the very first Superman comic was a wife-beater. Superman catches him beating his wife and he slaps him a round a bit telling him "Let's see how you like it."

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  @renatocorvaro6924 · 4 years ago

  Fuck, we'd never see this get made into a movie. And we really need to have it made into a movie.

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  @matti.8465 · 3 years ago

  Can I just say how much I adore this artstyle? Most DC comics have the same semi-realistic style, which great, but stuff like this is refreshing and helps give the comic its own distinct identity

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  @TheRagingSpoon · 4 years ago

  Its also worth noting, with the original radio play this was inspired by, the KKK wasn't seen as evil by white people back then. Superman helped to bring to light the crimes of the klan at a time many were ignorant of (willfully or otherwise)

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• BL

  @BlueBeetle1939 · 4 years ago

  What makes the character so impactful and what the movies have lost sight of is that it's not the super part that matters its the MAN part

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• HO

  @HotDogTimeMachine385 · 1 year ago

  And people will say "Comics weren't political"

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  @Breakfast.in.Bedlam · 4 years ago

  This makes me think of an old friend I knew since high school. He was Jewish, and half Chinese. &nbsp;When faced &nbsp;With hateful words he used Derogatory terms about himself that combined both. It would set up some imbalance in the asshole bully most of the time. Basically a Musashi move as he would call it, but it always hurt, and still does that people have to develop those survival skills.<br><br>rip Moish

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• AL

  @AlexGoldhill · 2 years ago

  I feel that this story would make a good fit with My Adventures with Superman if they ever adapt it in animation.

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  @Faction.Paradox · 4 years ago (edited)

  Synder&apos;s Superman would&apos;ve killed the Klan, but he would&apos;ve monologued Ayn Rand quotes about racism just being a form of collectivism while standing in the rain with a desaturated colour pallette.

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  @eldebo99 · 3 years ago

  The reveal that the pen is initialed for Lan-Shin Lee evoked a misty-eyed response out of me. Great stuff here, thank you for the video.

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  @samwill7259 · 4 years ago

  Reading this one for a class currently. Best book I&apos;ve ever been assigned for school bar none

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