The time: The Year of our Lord 2017. The place: Nick Spencer’s Captain America comic. No, not that one. The Sam Wilson one. The thing: I can’t even bear to summarize it because it’s so embarrassing. You will have to read this Daily Dot overview. But basically, Nick Spencer made some jokes about the rhetorical tactics of women and minorities after a bunch of women and minorities criticized his Hydra!Cap plot twist on ideological grounds. I died of embarrassment for him, and then I came back to life to write this post about why it’s a bad look to parody…
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