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Yesterday I tweeted about how they ditched the fact that Marvel's Wanda is the child of Holocaust survivors in the movies/tv. Multiple people made the excuse that it's because the child of Holocaust survivors would be very old, which is an interesting error to make
Let's do math. Someone leaves the camps at 7. They have a child at 47. That child was born in 1985. There are absolutely children of Holocaust survivors who are in their 30s and 40s.
So why were those people convinced that the child of a Holocaust survivor would have to be super old? Well, it's because they think the Holocaust happened a really really long time ago. In their heads, it's ancient history. But: it's not.
In a world where they weren't murdered, it's extremely possible that both MLKJr and Anne Frank would be alive. They'd be the same age: 92, or four years younger than Jimmy Carter. These things happened so much more recently than you imagine.
Lot of people already responding to this thread with other excuses for why Disney would write a Romani Jewish character to be generically Eastern European, and here's what: you're all missing the point by a mile.
Update: they're still doing it! Just missing the point by miles and in the dumbest way possible! People are very very bad at replying to tweets
people see the word "Marvel" and it activates just the worst parts of their brain and suddenly they're making stupid arguments about comic book lore in a thread about the legacy of the holocaust
