Originally Posted by
Blind Wedjat
Also, Remender's handling of the situation made it worse and exposed his ignorance:
- Having Alex Summers, a straight, white man with blond hair, blue eyes, and suburban upbringing, tell people to not call him the "M word" is ignorant. Doubling down on that and saying it wasn't a reference to the N-word made it worse.
- Telling people who were (rightfully) offended by that moment to "drown in hobo piss" was stupid and possibly bigoted. Doubling down on that and saying the X-Men aren't an allegory for any real world oppressed group (they are, although an outdated, poorly conceived and executed one) was ignorant and foolish. Hell, he demonstrated he doesn't know what allegory means.
Remender needed to understand that oppression isn't something that victims of said oppression choose to affect them. That seemed to be the rationale behind that moment, and I can see how a straight white man with possible conservative upbringing would come to that conclusion but that is not how it works.