'Maybe they'll change his outfit! Maybe now instead of a shield he'll be armed with a laptop and will have exciting adventures where he sits in coffee shops and tweets mean things and he's an active fact-checker on Facebook!'

Loftus continued, 'It's just more proof the left is going to come after everything that real Americans hold near and dear - they tried to cancel baseball, apple pie, and now Captain America! 'Did I miss an issue where he was kidnapped by liberal arts professors and was forced to move to Portland?' 'It's so sad when Captain America is like Captain Woke or Captain Propaganda. Michael Loftus, self-identified comedian and host of The Loftus Party, joined Fox News to bemoan how Captain America has become 'Captain Woke.' on July 4th – in addition to discourse on how Steve and the character of Captain America have always held up a mirror to American politics. Steve's name was also trending over the holiday weekend – marking his shared birthday with the U.S. Fox News' outrage was prompted by Marvel Comics' new 'United States of Captain America' miniseries, in which Steve Rogers will question the concept of the American Dream. military for some movies.īut all of this is news on Tuesday to anchors and guests on an outraged Fox News segment, horrified by what they perceived as the sudden politicization of a superhero named *checks notes* Captain America.

All of Marvel is political, often telling stories about power, resistance, government secrets, weapons development, identity, and more - not to mention having input and sign-off from the U.S. That said, yes, everything is political, but some things are, like, super political, and one such topic is Captain America, as depicted by both Marvel Studios and the comic books. The ability to avoid politics, or not have different parts of your identity politicized by society, is political, itself - it extends from the privileges conferred upon some, living under patriarchy and white supremacy. There's an old, simple little adage that goes something like, 'Everything is political,' and it's true.

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