Well..........points were made.
Oh, in that case I do get that. But I think the sort of progress in terms of equality still won’t be balanced out enough. And imagine if we’ve fully integrated/gone “colorblind” only for the nation to still have ingrained racism/misogynoir/transphobia in its system. It would totally be an “egg on the face” situation and especially in the case of the mutants, I don’t think it’s time for that sort of integration yet. I always like using the equality vs equity scenario.Sure, I get that. But I don’t think that’s always the case. It’s not always “oh if you can have an exclusive club than so should we even though most clubs default to being excluaive to us”. Sometimes it’s just “why do we need to have exclusive clubs?”
I agree that question can come from a place of ignorance, but I don’t think it always does. Sometimes I think when we talk about progress in this way, that question is eventually going to come up.
Though, if we do get into taking away the “exclusive clubs” then a lot of people are gonna be surprised at how much is stripped away from society, both good and bad.
I guess my problem doesn’t stem from the X-Men not being “heroic” but people who then either automatically conflate that with “villainy” as if there are no shades of grey or write off everything they are doing because they aren’t being textbook superheroes. The amnesty thing is easily the most controversial move they’ve pulled. I don’t think that means the X-Men will stop fighting for a world that hates and fears them, just now they are looking out for their own first and foremost and that bothers a lot of people.Perhaps. But clearly not everything they’re doing is heroic. I don’t see how that’s even a point of contention. Mr. Sinister is responsible for some real horrible stuff. Even if we just limit it to the Morlock Massacre....it’s awful. Working with a person like that and granting amnesty to him and his minions who actually carried out the slaughter is in no way heroic.
I think some of the other things shown in the series have been heroic. Destroying the Mother Mold....creating a haven for mutants. Those are great.
But there are also unheroic things, and those are what people are questioning. Sabertooth killing innocent men on a mission for Krakoa. Amnesty for the likes of Emplate and Apocalypse. Mentally influencing the Russian delegate.
Do those things somehow cancel out the good that’s being done? I don’t know if there’s an answer to that. Not a single answer, anyway. I think this story is meant to make us ask those kinds of tough to answer questions. I don’t think that we can simply label anyone who might consider different answers than we do as being “anti-mutant” or anything like that.
There was a discussion not too long ago on here about the importance of the X-Men being “mutants first, heroes second” which got a lot of flack. But I think it makes perfect sense. That is a community that is being targeted against and brutalized by the world, so why would they rush out to kick MODOK’s ass when their family are getting experimented on by O.N.E.? So the thing with Emma, it is unethical, sure. But is it necessary to ensure the safety of a bunch of mutants on the island? Yes. And I think that the benefits far outweighs what she did. I do appreciate that this series is raising these discussions, but I also like that how Moira has lived out her lives is tantamount to several countries’ horrific and bloody past and present. Like, just doing things by the books keeps you a “hero” but will anything ever change?