Remember that announcement about Marvel teaming with the United Nations to create a peace-keeping comic book? (Don’t laugh.) The Great White Snark thinks the international organization can learn a lot from superhero comics. Well, at least five things:
Not all persecuted groups are worth protecting. Just the really photogenic ones.
Listen, UN. We know there’s just so much you can do. Resources are limited, yeah? You can’t win ‘em all, right?
As much as we’d all like to see oppressed and persecuted groups around the world get the relief and protection that they need, we understand that there’s important politicking, bureaucratizing, and waffling to be done before things like that can happen. Which is why you need to pick and choose your battles.
The U.S. government certainly understood where you’re coming from when they sent giant, futuristic robots to protect the enclave of mutant X-Men living in New York. Sure, plenty of other non-superpowered minority groups probably could have used some of help from the government, but, hey, were those other groups so high-profile? Or attractive? Or potentially useful?
More at the link, obviously.
