Comments on: Tuesday PSA: Superman’s Code for Buddies

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:02:57 +0000

Well, as Bill said about the comic, he was probably going with the statistically-most-likely choices for his time and place…..

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:42:17 +0000

Wasn’t it Locke who established his reputation as a champion of religious liberty in England of the 1700’s, when he wrote that people of ALL religious beliefs should be accepted and given full rights under the law — excepting only Catholics, because they acknowledge a foreign prince, and Unitarians, because they deny the Holy Trinity. I guess it didn’t even occur to him to consider other Holy-Trinity-deniers, such as Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Hindus, Animists, Atheists, ….

By: Metz77

Metz77 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:57:56 +0000

Best to make your message of tolerance palatable to the intolerant, I guess

By: anon

anon — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:10:13 +0000

I find it amusing that it mentions tolerance no matter what skin color – but every single person in the strip is white.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:44:22 +0000

Why did Superman fly them all the way to Iwo Jima to make that point? And did he fly them back? I like to think that he just dumped them in Iwo Jima with no passports.

By: fluffy

fluffy — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:36:47 +0000

I remember one of the Charlie Brown animated specials involved the Peanuts gang going to a cemetary and looking at all the crosses, and then at one point they saw a star of David grave marker. They seemed to play it up for laughs, or at least that’s how I remembered it as an easily-offended Jewish kid.

By: Bill Waters

Bill Waters — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:37:23 +0000

Then again, in the 50s, there was still a significant amount of intolerance for Catholics and Jewish people in the US. When Kennedy ran for President a decade later, there was a stated fear that, since he was Catholic, if he was elected President, he would become a puppet for the Pope. There were also a lot more Catholics and Jews in America at the time, and not a lot of Muslims, Buddhists or followers of other religions, so this marks a first step in the path toward universal tolerance, especially since it uses a type of logic that can be extrapolated to other cases. It’s better than teaching bigotry.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:51:50 +0000

“Protestant, Jew OR Catholic?” Wow, that’s spreading the net pretty wide…