Guest Post by Arthur Sido
It was pretty easy to go through life when I was a much younger man and not notice what was going on. Life was simpler, at least it seemed, with the issues being far more black and white than they are presented today. There were Good Guys and Bad Guys, and conveniently we were always the Good Guys.
What most of us didn’t realize is that we were being propagandized all that time and often by some of our most beloved institutions and pop culture icons. One that gets very little notice is the quintessential American pop culture hero, Captain America. I mean the guy has America right in his name! The story behind Captain America is not quite as patriotic and pure as most people would assume.
The first Captain America comic was published December 20, 1940 or almost a full year before Pearl Harbor but already the villain of the first issue was Germany and Hitler in particular.
It was pure war propaganda in the guise of a superhero comic aimed at the impressionable boys who a year later would be climbing over each other in their eagerness to be sent to die in Africa, Europe and the Pacific.
Captain America was the creation of two men, writer “Joe Simon” who was born Hymie Simon, and illustrator “Jack Kirby” who was born Jacob Kurtzberg. Both men were of course Jews and had an interest in seeing America enter the war against Germany. Jack Kirby is quoted on Wikipedia as saying…
After the horror of World War I Americans were not especially interested in getting dragged into another European meat grinder and men like Charles Lindbergh and Charles Coughlin championed a real “America First” policy for which they were smeared as “isolationists”, the same smear used today by the neocon warmongers. Lindbergh presciently predicted what would happen to Europe if America were to enter the war…
He was mostly correct as Eastern Europe fell under the brutal control of the Soviets and eventually Western Europe fell to nihilism and degeneracy.
In the face of widespread popular opposition to America getting entangled in another European war, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby were tasked by Martin Goodman (born Moe Goodman to Lithuanian Jewish immigrant parents) of Timely Comics (the precursor to Marvel) to create the character that would become known as Captain America. Captain America is presented as a patriotic figure but was originally created as a political character…
Put more simply, Captain America was the creation of a Jewish comic book publisher, a Jewish writer and a Jewish illustrator with the express purpose of using a superhero to shift public opinion away from non-interventionism and toward an American entry in Europe’s second major war of the century. Then as now the target of this propaganda was the young, in the case of Captain America of young boys and teens who would be tasked with dying to “liberate” Europe in a war that would end up destroying what made Europe the cradle of civilization in the first place: her people.
I found it interesting that in the 1970s Captain America, so eager for young White boys to sign up to fight Nazism in Europe, suddenly seemed to embrace non-interventionism when the opponent was ostensibly Communism in Vietnam….
I was more of an X-Men guy in the 70s as a kid reading comic books so I missed a lot of that but it does seem curious that Captain America was fine with fighting Nazis but less than interested in fighting Communists under the direction of Stan Lee, born Stanley Martin Lieber to Romanian Jewish parents.
If it seems frustrating at times to witness just how difficult it can be to wake up our people and how stubbornly they cling to the bullshit narratives of the recent past, it is important to remember that most of us have been drowning from a firehose of propaganda for our entire lives and only recently did many of our people start to notice it. Undoing the deep seated propaganda of our childhood is a gargantuan task and one that takes time and patience, two things that we unfortunately have in short supply.
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[ H/T The Burning Platform ]
It was pretty easy to go through life when I was a much younger man and not notice what was going on. Life was simpler, at least it seemed, with the issues being far more black and white than they are presented today. There were Good Guys and Bad Guys, and conveniently we were always the Good Guys.
What most of us didn’t realize is that we were being propagandized all that time and often by some of our most beloved institutions and pop culture icons. One that gets very little notice is the quintessential American pop culture hero, Captain America. I mean the guy has America right in his name! The story behind Captain America is not quite as patriotic and pure as most people would assume.
The first Captain America comic was published December 20, 1940 or almost a full year before Pearl Harbor but already the villain of the first issue was Germany and Hitler in particular.
It was pure war propaganda in the guise of a superhero comic aimed at the impressionable boys who a year later would be climbing over each other in their eagerness to be sent to die in Africa, Europe and the Pacific.
Captain America was the creation of two men, writer “Joe Simon” who was born Hymie Simon, and illustrator “Jack Kirby” who was born Jacob Kurtzberg. Both men were of course Jews and had an interest in seeing America enter the war against Germany. Jack Kirby is quoted on Wikipedia as saying…
After the horror of World War I Americans were not especially interested in getting dragged into another European meat grinder and men like Charles Lindbergh and Charles Coughlin championed a real “America First” policy for which they were smeared as “isolationists”, the same smear used today by the neocon warmongers. Lindbergh presciently predicted what would happen to Europe if America were to enter the war…
He was mostly correct as Eastern Europe fell under the brutal control of the Soviets and eventually Western Europe fell to nihilism and degeneracy.
In the face of widespread popular opposition to America getting entangled in another European war, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby were tasked by Martin Goodman (born Moe Goodman to Lithuanian Jewish immigrant parents) of Timely Comics (the precursor to Marvel) to create the character that would become known as Captain America. Captain America is presented as a patriotic figure but was originally created as a political character…
Put more simply, Captain America was the creation of a Jewish comic book publisher, a Jewish writer and a Jewish illustrator with the express purpose of using a superhero to shift public opinion away from non-interventionism and toward an American entry in Europe’s second major war of the century. Then as now the target of this propaganda was the young, in the case of Captain America of young boys and teens who would be tasked with dying to “liberate” Europe in a war that would end up destroying what made Europe the cradle of civilization in the first place: her people.
I found it interesting that in the 1970s Captain America, so eager for young White boys to sign up to fight Nazism in Europe, suddenly seemed to embrace non-interventionism when the opponent was ostensibly Communism in Vietnam….
I was more of an X-Men guy in the 70s as a kid reading comic books so I missed a lot of that but it does seem curious that Captain America was fine with fighting Nazis but less than interested in fighting Communists under the direction of Stan Lee, born Stanley Martin Lieber to Romanian Jewish parents.
If it seems frustrating at times to witness just how difficult it can be to wake up our people and how stubbornly they cling to the bullshit narratives of the recent past, it is important to remember that most of us have been drowning from a firehose of propaganda for our entire lives and only recently did many of our people start to notice it. Undoing the deep seated propaganda of our childhood is a gargantuan task and one that takes time and patience, two things that we unfortunately have in short supply.
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Continue reading...
[ H/T The Burning Platform ]
