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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Magneto has repeatedly had turns of being extermonationist against regular humans, and even when he isn't he's still often portrayed as mutant nationalist, modelling his vision for Genosha off of Israel, which he has repeatedly stated his support of in a very "You lived through the logical conclusion of that shit personally, how are you THIS determined to still get it wrong‽"

Poison Ivy has turns of being an eco-fascist, and her more just being an anti-social eco-anti-hero now is often billed as being a direct result of her treatment at Arkham when before she wanted to actually kill everything but plants. Not even all humans, all everything that isn't either a plant or a plant symbiote, and while that would be am incredible spec-evo project, it would also make her the single most genocidal psychopath in earth's history assuming lichens don't achieve sapience to start making a contest of it.

For just wanting to save his wife, Mr. Freeze sure has a lot of arrests on his record involving trying to plunge gotham into a new ice age, which, just look at Extra History's series on the little ice age to get an idea of just how horrible doing that on purpose to a society is.

Stop whitewashing terrible people who just happen to even tangentially look like a cause you agree with.

That's how we get Joker being seen as justified because one too many people feel personally attacked for cat calling women to smile more and ....motherfucker I think I just figured out why the incels latched onto him so hard.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People hate and fear black people or gay people out of ignorance and stupidity. People fear mutants because they cap rip out all the iron in someone's body. They have the power of a million mass shooters in one hand.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Some of them have the power of of a million mass shooters. Some of them have the power of a very long neck. Seriously, there an X-man with the codename Longneck because he has a very long neck. He's never once helped the team in the field, because he's completely powerless unless he wants to look over toilet stall walls while pooping.

He does have longer arms to match his neck, but that's it. I guess he can easily get stuff off a high shelf...

And pointedly he cannot blend in as a normal human, so his introduction to the team was them saving him from a lynch mob.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, but that that does not mean we can ignore the fact some can just level a city if they are in a bad mood. My point is that xmen is a pretty shit allegory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm imagining the mob standing around the guy scratching their heads, with the noose pulled all the way up to the branch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I am pretty sure that racism existed before Reagan became president.

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