The anti-woke backlash to X-Men 97 is disappointing but not at all surprising. The franchise has an undeniably progressive premise but the execution of that premise over the decades has also appealed to far right audiences, or at least hasn't exactly scared them away.
For as much as fans brag that the best X-Men characters are the women, it's no secret that the franchise's most popular and marketed character is Wolverine, a white guy who can best be described as a cross between Dirty Harry, James Bond and a slasher villain and whose solo stories contain questionable writing choices regarding women and non-white people.
That's not even getting into how the team originally consisted of four guys and one girl, all of whom were white. Or how four out of the five most prominent mutant leaders (Professor X, Magneto, Cyclops, Wolverine and Storm) are white men. Or how objectified women are (though that isn't limited to X-Men).