I really wanted to like Man of Steel.

But when one gets down to what the film is implicitly–and, sometimes quite explicitly– communicating, it is sadly, but not unexpectedly, anti-White.

The movie begins with a depiction of Krypton. The Kryptonians are an advanced race, whose misuse of their planet’s natural resources, motivated by an obviously “rich-old-white-man” stereotypical greed for more, has led to the destruction of their planet’s core. All thinking men and women on Krypton seem to know they are doomed.

Russel Crowe plays Jor-El, Superman’s father. His ideological nemesis is General Zod. Jor-El wants to save the Kryptonian race by seeding another planet with his posterity. What Zod wants is initially unclear, but he is depicted as...