If Nazism hadn't happened in Germany first, it would have happened somewhere else, probably in America. Pseudo-scientific eugenics is always present just beneath the surface of western civilization. The US conducted mass sterilization, segregation, and forced human experiments well into the 20th century. Nazism is a…

Winter Soldier didn't say the Nazis weren't Nazis. It said that after the war, the US brought a lot of them over to work for our government (which is unarguably true) and that the Nazis had infiltrated our government at every level (which is true now, though it wasn't obvious when Winter Soldier came out).

Marvel seems committed to taking a potentially interesting premise - what if the Nazis took control of Captain America? - and handling it the most hamfisted way possible.

Why would anyone watch a movie about a terror attack almost happening, and being prevented by dumb luck? There's literally less than ten minutes worth of conflict here.

Fair enough. I guess there are a handful of counter examples, like subscribers to Ebony and Jet.

The audience for everything in America is mostly white. I don't know what significance that has.

That distinction matters for state unemployment insurance programs. The point is that you can be discharged from employment at any time for any reason, with a handful of narrow exceptions.

In America, in every state, employment is presumed to be at will. You can be fired for anything, unless you have a contract, or the reason you're being fired is protected by anti-discrimination laws, or you're fired in retaliation for trying to unionize or something similar.

You mean then she'd be a hero.

As a a physical object, it's still the same.

Adding Fearless Girl makes Charging Bull part of another work of art. The only difference between that and melting it down to use the bronze for a new statue is that Fearless Girl can be removed.

Well, I hope you have a happy Easter or Passover then.

But if you just hear "religious references," you probably think of something pretty benign. Who cares if someone sneaks religious references into a comic book? The whole genre kicks off with a thinly veiled reference to Moses. Religious references are part of the fabric of superhero comics and movies, if not of art…

The 212 protest called for the governor to be removed and prosecuted for blasphemy. The artist here wasn't just making references to his religious beliefs. He's calling for blasphemy prosecutions and executions.

That's true. But just sneakily refererencing Islam probably wouldn't have gotten him control if it wasn't part of a campaign on the part of Indonesia's Muslim majority to execute minority Christians for blasphemy.

That's not that different from the artist's stated meaning. You just (more or less correctly) view Wall Street's resilience negatively.

You can't any longer look at the bull without seeing it as menacing the girl. And the girl only has any meaning because of where it is relative to the bull. If you moved the girl 10 yards away or rotated her 90 degrees, then the girl is a completely different statue. Changing the context of a work of art is one thing…

So if someone later defaces the bull, that's cool with you? What if someone decapitates the girl statue, or moves it so that it's being gored by the bull? Surely, in the latter cases, the artist who handed the girl would be right to be mad.

Which means it completely changes the statue.

There's not anything to be done about the meaning assigned to it. If the artist thinks he intended one thing, and everyone else thinks it means something else, that just too bad for the artist.