anyway the fact that when i was a kid into superheroes the only people that looked like me and spoke my language in the media i consumed were the terrorists the heroes would fight. and now it's TEN WHOLE YEARS later and batman's fucking son is middle eastern! he's mena and yet instead of getting to be cutesy and fun like batman's other kids he has to always be fucking CORRUPT and EVIL and FIGHTING HIS DAD TO THE DEATH. when i was a kid i knew the fact that my people were always terrorists was propaganda because it was so cartoonish. but a kid reading comics today would not know that what they're reading is just as much propaganda and it makes me so goddamned sad