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The disrespect that I’m alluding to has a lot of elements. First, Peter Benjamin Parker is Jewish. Every version of Peter Parker is Jewish. He is a kid who grew up in a predominantly Jewish ghetto turned suburb in Queens New York. Disney erased all of that to make him trendy and “more relatable.” And it’s no coincidence since they did the same to Pietro and Wanda who are Romani and Jewish.

Second Peter Parker and Aunt May are poor. Peter Parker had to work in high school to help support his family. Aunt May was living off Uncle Ben’s life insurance and was in retirement prior to his death. She had to come out of retirement and find work. And this is the kicker, Peter Parker and Aunt May abhorred the rich. Most of Peter’s rogues are working class career criminals but his major ones like Norman Osborn, Kingpin, And Doc Ock, corporate execs or corporate backed scientists who saw profit or progress over humanity and decency. They were greed and avarice personified. You know...like Tony Stark, the hero that Peter idolized....

And finally and most importantly, Peter Parker is an independent hero. Spider-Man is about independence. Peter was a bullied misanthropic shy Jewish white kid who if he weren’t bitten would have let that repressed anger consume him. He became the most selfless sometimes overly so because he refused to take community responsibility and stop a robber because the person being robbed wronged him personally. And his Uncle Ben, god bless his kind and also Jewish heart, died instilling Into Peter as his last words to his nephew and adoptive son values of community and humanity. Power and responsibility. Jewish values that Peter grew from and inspired little kids like Miles Morales to understand himself.

And like I understand the American Jewish community has done so much to fight for the rights of other minorities in this country and created a medium that my black bi ass enjoys about being a hero and what that actually means.

Peter Benjamin Parker never needed to revere anyone. He is a hero that all others look up to in the same vein as Superman. A hero that we can be and at the same time understand what it is like. Peter Parker didn’t look up an Iron Man who was war mongering and didn’t take responsibility for his actions nor never experienced consequences until he was forced to and even then he blamed other people.

Spider-Man is not a prop for Iron Man.

Okay one more time.

@necrolordj1 Going to be nice.

Alright, okay I for one am tired of people using this often quoted scene from Civil War about Peter dumpster diving for supplies. Do you see Peter doing that in his movie? No. Show, don’t tell. They changed course in the direction of his character after Civil War. Not to mention he no longer resides in a Queens neighborhood but an apartment filled with IKEA furniture(because MCU doesn’t understand anything else but wealth) and goes to a charter school, advanced placement school or a magnet school that assumes Peter is no longer poor. Fact of the matter is that Peter’s main social struggle is classism which is something that the movies chose not to display in spite of using behaviors that a person strapped for cash wouldn’t do(leaving his backpack stranded and surprised that it is stolen when he comes back). Homecoming and subsequently Far From Home took Peter Parker out of the working class.

And no, when they were starting Amazing Spider-Man, Peter was Jewish without stating he is Jewish for fear of alienation and condemnation. Around the 60s a lot of Jewish immigrants came in and were wrestling with assimilation which is where a lot of the animosity between Peter and his early high school classmates stemmed from: anti-semitism. So they opted to infuse lesser known Jewish stereotypes to code Peter as Jewish. So no he wasn’t wearing a Star of David or anything but it was subtle things like ‘Aunt May using Jewish Guilt to make Peter feel bad about not helping his Aunt.’ They did this with Ben Grimm and Bruce Banner as well. So early Spider-Man was Jewish. It wasn’t until later where other non-Jewish writers began inserting Peter into Christianity or Protestant belief or atheism because it was a safer option. However, Brian Michael Bendis, writer of Ultimate Spider-Man and very good friend of Stan Lee prior to his death, was interviewed as to why he wrote Peter Parker speaking Yiddish and he was uncharacteristically frank: “Because he is Jewish. All versions of Peter Parker are Jewish.” Later on Bendis goes on to explain while comparing and contrasting Miles Morales, that Peter is not too accepting of Judaism or is properly assimilated into whiteness. He denies it or is uncertain of his culture vs Miles Morales who loves rap music, sprays graffiti, and has the Puerto Rican flag plastered on his backback. Point is that given that two Slovakian New York Jewish immigrants created Peter Parker to mirror their own life experiences, it can be assumed that the life being mirrored is a Jewish one.

I’m going to tag @traincat again to not elaborate but as a few literary resources that back the idea that Peter is Jewish or a Jew in Denial.

And about Peter’s internship in the Civil War comics, I understand that people don’t hold up comic books to the same literary standard as door stoppers or novels but what you just did was the equivalent of reading the Great Gatsby’s introduction of the titular character and saying that this story is about how cool being rich is. Yes, Peter worked with Tony at a time and yes, Tony gave him a suit as a show of support of Peter backing his side. However, the difference here is the story was about Iron Man consuming Peter’s identity and autonomy. Tony manipulated Peter to his side and used Peter as a brand mascot while spying on him and indirectly controlling him through the suit. So Peter rebelled, reprogrammed the Iron Spider suit, changed the colors back to his original design as a giant fuck you to Tony Stark. The major theme of Civil War Spider-Man was about respecting Spider-Man’s independence and autonomy. He was pushing back against controlling and frankly authoritarian nature.

It’s common that people go to the Wikipedia page and use that as a summation of the story, but they often lack the why it is happening when it’s not explicit. Usually I go back to my fuck large huge stack of volumes and print those out but I ain’t in the mood.

Now like I said. MCU and by extension Disney chose to erase that when all prior Disney adaptations upheld it. It’s disrespectful to Spider-Man fans and Jewish American people who are sick of the ‘goy washing’ or erasure of their representation.

ryker you’re the only one i trust to insert characters into this

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The Punisher #14 - “War on the Streets III” (2019)

Moon Knight: Little bit. You still murdering people?

Punisher: Little bit. How’s your imaginary God?