Eine faszinierende Geschichte aus zeiten, als das wahre Böse noch nicht im Computerspiel gesehen wurde, sondern in Comics. Man möchte meinen, unsere heutigen Großinquisitoren Beckstein und Pfeiffer hätten ihre Argumente 1:1 aus den “Expertenhearings” aus den 50er Jahren abgeschrieben.
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“It is my opinion,” Wertham told the senators and the cameras, “without any reasonable doubt and without any reservation, that comic books are an important contributing factor in many cases of juvenile delinquency.” The child most likely to be influenced by comic books, he said, is the normal child; morbid children are less affected, “because they are wrapped up in their own fantasies.” Comic books taught children racism and sadism—“Hitler was a beginner compared to the comic book industry,” he said. In his book, he said that “Batman” comics were homoerotic and that “Wonder Woman” was about sadomasochism. He was even critical of “Superman” comics: “They arouse in children fantasies of sadistic joy in seeing other people punished over and over again while you yourself remain immune,” he testified. “We have called it the Superman complex.”