Cold and deeply cynical, especially if you count the later retcons, revisions, and revelations about his character and motivations. That said, it would play into the interpretation some have had of the X-Men as a kind of self-appointed elite more concerned with policing their own than with actually bettering conditions for mutants as a whole, given all the years they spent (or if you're feeling less charitable, wasted) appealing to (virtually nonexistent) human goodwill by policing more militant mutants that weren't so willing to play nice with their persecutors in the human race, especially those in positions of status and authority. Beyond that, this does show rather well that even the worst exemplars of humanity can still have valid points when it comes to the hypocrisy of those who would deem themselves "the good guys," albeit somewhat undercut by themselves being unrepentantly horrible excuses for people.