Following last week’s news that Marvel Comics will introduce a gay Captain America into story canon, a right-wing podcaster has quipped that the character will “succumb” to AIDS in the new storyline.
Commentator Dave Landau made the remarks while filling in as host of Louder with Crowder, a far-right podcast hosted by former Fox News contributor Steven Crowder. Landau apparently couldn’t wrap his head around the creation of Aaron Fischer, the aforementioned gay character that dons the mantle of Captain America.
After being widely condemned for racism, “Louder with Crowder” crew doubles down on bigotry.
Here's the guest host suggesting that a new gay Captain America character will contract AIDShttps://t.co/cY8CK7OrsN pic.twitter.com/YLhV3QdIqE
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) March 17, 2021
“Marvel has reimagined Captain America to be a gay man,” Landau said. “Yeah, I guess — I don’t know if you’ve seen the picture of him, he does, he looks like a twink which I don’t get. Couldn’t he just be gay and look like Captain America always looks? Does he have to look like he sells ecstasy outside of a rave in the year 2001? Like he looks like he hacked up Angel Melendez and threw him in the river.”
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Angel Melendez, for the uninformed, was a drug dealer and “club kid” murdered by fellow nightclub personality Michael Alig. The crime became something of a cause celebre in 1996.
Landau went on to claim that he had “obtained some exclusive new story details” about the introduction of Aaron Fisher. “Cap’s main conflict is not with the Nazis. No,” he said. “But instead he battles against complications arising from sharing his super serum needles.”
“Captain America brought AIDS into this office,” Landau went on. “Marvel is really playing catch up since DC actually did this first with AIDS Superman. Did you know that? Yeah. That’s a real ad in France to prevent AIDS. Because it’s not just kryptonite that affects Superman, it’s also three other, three letters that brought him to his final resting place. TLC.”
Landau’s Superman remark refers to an initiative by the French government to raise AIDS awareness. The campaign did feature Wonder Woman and Superman as HIV patients.
In the same broadcast, Landau also joked that transgender actor Elliot Page will auction off his breasts on eBay.
The announcement of a gay Captain America met with predictable right-wing attacks on Marvel Comics last week. In addition to Landau’s comments, far-right media site Newsmax complained that Marvel should also create a “conservative” Captain America who was also a die-hard Trump supporter.
Vince
Unfortunetly being cruel is the only things conservatives find funny.
greekboy
Why does queerty even give this guy any press. Just because some nutjob says something, it doesn’t warrant being repeated. I am a complete news maven, and I am certain I would never have heard this “story”. Sometimes silence really is golden.
Prax07
Stop giving these no-name hacks news time. No one but their own audience cares what they have to say. You’re only making them more famous by showing articles about them. Bad enough to see big name turds in stories, stop giving these little turds press.
missvamp
there is more horrible stuff if you follow the twitter link. this guy is a knuckle dragging troll. ugh
Openminded
Not that any of this jerks comments are appropriate, but why in the world does he drag Elliott Page into a DC Comics rant?
Cam
Because Transpeople are the latest boogeymen for conservatives now that talking about gay people was overdone and the audience isn’t as terrified at the mention of them. They’ll bring the few famous ones up whenever possible.
cuteguy
Fox News loves this homophobia. It also loves misogyny, xenophobia and racism., a Trump catered to this lowest common denominator
Cam
For a superstraight, no ho-mo, all into women kind of guy he sure seems to know a lot about the whole Michael Alig story. So much that he forgot his audience probably doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Hmmmmm
JessPH
Stop legimitizing and giving these lowlifes the publicity they desperately seek.
conans
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BaltoSteve
Hmmm.. used Twink properly. Well then.