This was a question someone reached out to me and asked me to tackle, so here we go.. Let's get a few things out of the way first shall we? Yes, Captain America is essentially a Nazi now or at the very, very least being used as a Neo-Nazi/white supremacist propaganda. And yes, that is extremely troubling and flies in the face of the late great Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, the creators of Captain America, who like many early comic writers were Jewish. Also, no you do not have to personally support any of these books. You don't need to buy Captain America, Secret Empire , Thunderbolts , or any the tie in stories. You just don't. You should, however, buy it for the books for your library if you think they will circulate and justify your purpose as a library (like if you have a huge white supremacist population and you think they'll read it). That's ultimately the reason to have any controversial material and there is legitimate reasons to have material that is pushing ...
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