I’m not going to tell folks to rewatch the first two X-Men movies, but I’m fairly certain you can piece that together from the cultural osmosis of that series. The opening scene of the first movie clearly states Poland and it is clearly identified as a concentration camp.
Plus I’m fairly certain it was also revisited in First Class.
EDIT: Don’t rewatch X-Men or X2 because of Bryan Singer.
I think that’s an easier argument to make with someone who is dead, like H.P. Lovecraft. It’s a different story when the artist is still alive and actively profiting off the work you are consuming.
At this point there’s really no need to anyway. Plenty of works nowadays that capture the spirit of the sort of cosmic horror he wrote about without the atrocious xenophobia, or at least touch on the topic in ways that deconstruct and/or scrutinize those views in a much healthier and compelling way.
Feel like I’ve been saying this a lot recently, but it’s pertinent:
Camp Auschwitz was in Poland, not Germany.
I’m not going to tell folks to rewatch the first two X-Men movies, but I’m fairly certain you can piece that together from the cultural osmosis of that series. The opening scene of the first movie clearly states Poland and it is clearly identified as a concentration camp.
Plus I’m fairly certain it was also revisited in First Class.
EDIT: Don’t rewatch X-Men or X2 because of Bryan Singer.
I’m a firm believer that if we only accepted art based on the morality of the artist, the whole world would be a bleak shade of grey.
Gotta separate the two. You can say “X was an incredible artist and I appreciate their work, but holy shit were they a terrible human.”
We can acknowledge the spectrum of the human and let the good parts into the world and still shun the bad.
I think that’s an easier argument to make with someone who is dead, like H.P. Lovecraft. It’s a different story when the artist is still alive and actively profiting off the work you are consuming.
As a black dude, I’m still not reading Lovecraft…
Yeah, that’s fair. He was so racist that even his contemporary racists were like “wtf?”
At this point there’s really no need to anyway. Plenty of works nowadays that capture the spirit of the sort of cosmic horror he wrote about without the atrocious xenophobia, or at least touch on the topic in ways that deconstruct and/or scrutinize those views in a much healthier and compelling way.
Piracy it is then!