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From a friend of mine in Hyderabad, Prakash Kona

http://sociologicalimagination.org/posts/prakashkona/iron-man-and-the-%E2%80%9Cbigger-dick%E2%80%9D-us-foreign-policy-in-the-third-world/

Iron Man is an arrogant, patronizing, racist prick who stands for everything that makes the United States such a crazy drunk ape of a regime. He just belongs to the long line of James Bonds and Supermans and Rambos and other dickheads who are out there to save white Americans and their families from the wretched others. There’s a point Baldwin makes over and again: what is missing or rather repressed in white American consciousness is blackness. This blackness takes myriad forms from the “blacks” themselves to communists, Arabs and gays. The stupidest American movie gives you an idea of what this hidden face of blackness is all about.

I have to agree.