You all may be thinking “well that’s so dumb! Making Steve Rogers a bad guy! Yuck!”
But it’s so much more than that. They made Steve Rogers, Captain America, the character Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, two Jews, created as a statement against Hitler, as a statement against American’s support of nazis, and made him hydra. They made Steve Rogers a nazi.
This is the biggest slap in the face to Jews by marvel and that’s saying a hell of a lot coming from that company.
Captain America is like, the incarnation of The American Spirit, right?
If you are writing a meditation on what The American Spirit means in 2016, one that’s quite possibly intended to be read against and cross over with Ta-Nehisi Coates’ meditation on what The Negro Spirit means these days,
“[The American Spirit], which since the 1930s has made a huge show of being defined against Nazis, turns out to have been kinda Nazi-ish underneath all along” is maybe a productive and not-rightist angle to take
