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Revolutionary_Jack gets it.
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This was a really great write up and one I agree with.
I kind of feel that Hickman is trying to subvert many of the tropes that have become the backbone for the X-Men franchise (for the good and detriment of the title) or at least. Mutant Nation? Been done before? But this time let's do it BIGGER. Dystopian future where the mutants lose? Been done before? But this time let's do it BIGGER. X-Men working with villains? Been done before? But this time let's do it BIGGER.
Yes to Kis. Yes to Rev. J yes to L13...yes yes yes!
Thanks for saving the X-Threads with your knowledge and varied but connective insights.
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I can't help it lol I'm just so giddy about this DoX era hopefully that last into the next year or two because I really do believe that Hickman has brought some hope and optimism to the franchise that was sorely lacking these past years. I'm actually excited to read the X-Men again.
Intersectionality doesn't work as a defense because mutants are legitimately dangerous to others but black and lgbt people are persecuted for merely'appearing' dangerous. Even Bishop is a bad default, because he can blow shit up if the situation calls for it and does not have comply with police on fear of death like real black people do. Mutants are a power fantasy. They may face analogous discrimination, but they always come out on top. This is why real world comparisons should be applied with the lightest touch.
"A happy ending? So unlikely. We're not having a moment here.
Wrong city, wrong people, all huddling in fear.
No one escapes the slaughterhouse, and that's just where you're at.
(You could've asked Rebecca but then Adam stomped her flat.)
You think you're special cuz you're scrappy? You're deluded, time to go.
Lucy's living on the moon but you're another dead psycho."
It could have been considered like a act of love… if they didn't use it as political leverage. It is not the point that the cost to use the drug is small: acts of love are selfless.
Oh, yes, previously, they saved countless lives as super-heroes of the whole humanity (mutants and non-mutants). They certainly proved their generosity and courage. Just… for me, they don't feel the same anymore…
Well, you don't say someone you love: "I will replace you" (Xavier) or "I'm superior to you" (Magneto, Xavier's right-arm).
“Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” Goethe
I would say no, really.
What defense is “intersectionality”? I’m showing you ways that mutants get oppressed just for being mutant. Not every mutant is completely destructive with their powers yet are subject to being hunted down, experimented on, tortured, and worse just because of the X-Gene they possessed. Mutants have never truly been “on top,” because they literally just spent the last decade and a half trying to not go extinct. Unless I’m missing some new definition of that sort of expression, fighting for your survival against the worst odds after having numbers in the millions is nothing close to that.
As much as I know the prejudice against X-Gene started with magneto, before him most people didn’t know that mutants existed, a few mutants could be discriminated by their appearance ( as humans have been discriminated) but the real racism and fear against them started when a terrorist proclaimed them as the superior race. I always have seen the mutants more similar to the Muslims than Lgtb. People never know if that friendly mutant next door will blow up the house as part of a supremacist attack .
“Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” Goethe
Welll You had mutants like Multiple Man....aka Killcrops being killed at birth....theres that whole Sentinels being built, and that was going on before Magneto. You dont know how the discrimination mutants endured caaaaausse the X-mythos starts at Xavier/Magneto
Whoa! Perhaps shouldn't lump a whole religion with a few extremists Not sure what country you're from but In America...'American str8 white Dudes' are the ones most likely to kill in a supremacist attack
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Yeah I am from Europa, and of course I would never label a whole religion as terrorist, but here we had some attacks based in religion and the current prejudce is more driven by fear.
About the sentinels if I am right Trask created them because Larry showed him the future and he saw the brotherhood killing kelly. He didnt know anything about mutants but seeing them he though that they were an evil group that wanted to take over the world, after he saw that X-men were trying to help the humanity he tried to shut down the Sentinels but it was late.
About the Killcrops most I think Jamie was the only killcrops who was born in modern times, the other ones like tryp were ancient, they were mistaken with demons and other creatures. That was discrimination but not based in their X-gene , I mean people with porphyria were also mistaken with demons in the past.