I don't think it is an evil empire. But I feel more of the down-to-Earth X-Men should be conscious of how it looks to the rest of the world, it makes them look rather less approachable to say the least, which is not what you want from a movement for social change. And it is ultimately social acceptance for mutants in human society that should be the goal, cause that's where the mutants are gonna be, whether they want to or not. Can't help where you're born.