#see: wanda being white washed and christian washed

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My adopted family is jewish; my father is also of Roma descent. My husband is Jewish. This is an affront to all of us that she is doing this and that the XMCU and the MCU erases our stories for a more sanitized and less ethnic and accurate story of characters that were created by Jewish men to tell a story about children of a Jewish Holocaust survivor who had children with a Roma woman. The creators of these characters were adults, by the way, in an era when people of this ethnicity were being rounded up and killed in camps, and the XMen came about not long after that time, so the stories of Magneto and his lover and their children were ones they told that rang all too true to Jewish, Roma, and other minority readers who were coming out of that era and were either of that time or children of the people of that time. The MCU would like people to forget that they white wash and try to erase identities. Marvel is awful at how it treats non white, non straight, non cis, non christian, and non "fits in a neat little cute american politically moldable bubble" characters. We saw it with its cancellation with X Factor, its super popular queer focused comic by a queer writer which had multiple poc queer characters. And now we have seen it both now and earlier this year with it repeatedly showcasing Wanda and sensationalizing a culture that is not theirs to do so with.

Donate to Roma foundations and charities and gofundmes.

Donate to Jews in need.

Donate to the people who are suffering and are forgotten still whose stories are seemingly never told in a good way

I currently lack the spoons to look up charities rn, and there are so many to pick from, but I know a lot of them are easily accessible, and honestly even doing individual gofundmes of people can help but I just wanted this out there because I'm tired of seeing people praise this show and give it unearned accolades while it steps on those who wrote the original characters as champions of diversity and to be standards for race relations and such (you know, because x men were originally art as advocacy in the 1960s and now they're queer rep in a lot of ways altho there's still work to be done)

#marvel #marvel comics #mcu #scarlet witch #wandavision #jews #roma #roma culture #controversy #representation #discourse #i rant

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The Problem With MCU Wanda

I’m gonna be keeping this as short as possible, so let’s get started.

Wanda Maximoff was the Roma-Jewish daughter of two Holocaust survivors for the majority of her comic book history. Recently, her being Magneto and Magda's daughter was retconned away, but she's still Roma. She's still Jewish.

And at the time that Age of Ultron was being developed, at the time that the MCU was planning on introducing Wanda and Pietro ━━ they were the Roma Jewish children of two Holocaust survivors. You may notice that I'm repeating those three facts a lot. It's because they're important.

While Aaron Taylor Johnson may be Jewish, he isn't Roma. Elizabeth Olsen isn't Roma or Jewish. They're both white, too, which comic book Wanda and Pietro tend to not be.

No matter what way you look at it, there's one basic fact here: the MCU white-washed these characters. But, hey, that's not something new for them; the Ancient One in Doctor Strange is portrayed by a white woman; Peter Parker is a glorified white-washed Miles Morales.

Wanda and Pietro only get worse from here. That's the biggest problem I have, and I'm already pissed off at the white-washing; it gets worse than that.

In Age of Ultron, Pietro and Wanda, who are based off the Roma-Jewish children of Holocaust survivors, willing sign up to work with HYDRA, a neo-Nazi organization.

I want you to read that sentence again. I want you to take it in.

There's no version of this where that's okay. I know that Age of Ultron makes it clear that they didn't know what they were getting into... but the writers did. The director did. MARVEL did. Everyone on that movie knew that these characters, these Jewish, Roma, characters, were joining a Nazi organization.

I should not have to explain how overwhelmingly anti-Semitic that is. I should not have to tell a single one of you why that should make you sick to your stomach.

And, god, it doesn't stop there. You might have noticed that I specified Wanda up above and that's not because the portrayal of Pietro is in the clear; it's just because one of these characters is still alive. One of them is still being an absolutely disgusting example of blatant anti-Semitism.

The MCU has used set design to imply that Wanda is a Christian. There hasn't been a single mention to her Jewish heritage, not one hint of that, but we still can manage to put a few crosses in her room? What the actual fuck, MARVEL?

I do want to get ahead of one thing before I see somebody start in the comments: Elizabeth Olsen is not innocent in this. Repeat after me: Elizabeth Olsen is not innocent in this.

It doesn't matter if she didn't know she was taking on a white-washed role in Age of Ultron, but she sure as hell knows it now. She's profiting off of this. There was no contractual obligation for her to do Wandavision; that was her choice to continue this character.

This woman has used slurs, as well, to describe Wanda. She, Renner and Ruffolo chanted a slur. Stop defending Olsen and start accepting that your favourite white girl is a terrible person.

There's still more to this. Elizabeth Olsen and Aaron Taylor Johnson have, in an official interview, said that they played Wanda and Pietro's relationship has incestuous 'just for them'. If literally, everything else that's been said here hasn't hit you that this woman is the worst, maybe that'll finally do it for you.

If you support MCU Wanda, you're anti-Semitic. If you support Elizabeth Olsen, you're anti-Semitic. If you support Wandavision, you're anti-Semitic. You don't get a way out of this.

#anti mcu #type: rant #please please don't support this show don't keep giving Disney money for this goddamn horror #yes this is edited from my wp what about it #this is also a VERY basic version of it & i haven't talked much about pietro but maddiepryorlovebot has an excellent post that covers far #more ground & sincerely i'd recommend checking it out

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In addition to the obvious problems with Wanda’s portrayal, I think people should keep in mind that her comic relationship with vision also functioned as a metaphor for interracial relationships and to a lesser extent lgbt+ relationships in a time when such a thing couldn’t be portrayed explicitly. I’m not saying it was done well, because it wasn’t, but that doesn’t mean context should be ignored. Seeing a white-and goy-washed cishet Wanda angst over a cishet white guy genuinely sucks even if 1/

It’s not actually “comic inaccurate” (aside from Wanda being white and Christian of course, which is inexcusably bad). 2/2

i honestly haven’t heard of that specifically, do you know if there’s a place where i can read up some more about it?

#ask amanda #anonymous #marvel discourse

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the way that some mcu fans actively dislike people talking about the comics,,, like yeah they’re separate entities but a) the mcu draws heavily from the comics (obviously) and b) we should be talking about the way the mcu adapts the comics because that’s one of the ways we can spot straightwashing and whitewashing and other issues in the mcu that a lot of the fandom seems to want to ignore. when the mcu erases marginalised identities, people are so quick to defend it as “a different universe so ok” like??? no that’s still erasing identities. you’re allowed to like things that have issues but refusing to acknowledge the issues with media you enjoy is ignoring the way it hurts people

#see: wanda being white washed and christian washed #the numerous characters that have been straight washed #everything related to loki’s genderfluidity in the loki show #the way the fandom reacts to yelena belova #it’s so frustrating #wanda maximoff is jewish and romani! #yelena is aroace #you’re allowed to like things that have problematic elements but not engaging critically is an issue #mcu fandom #yelena belova #wanda maximoff #loki