For example, Mystique being transgender and Morph being non-binary.

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    8 months ago

    The problem with xmen is fundmental. They are weapons. Its not skin color or sexuality or anything, they are living weapons, and the metaphor falls flat before it ever stands up.

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      8 months ago

      Exactly. There are mutants many thousands of times more dangerous than atomic bombs. There are mutants the fundamentally subvert the basics of society like free will. To look at it and say “this is just like black people” is, Uhh, questionable at best

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        8 months ago

        It wasn’t there are just like black people. It was more about society pushing out anyone who was different, like black people.

        Oddly Stan was a Democrat and they were the most racist ones in the room. So I am not sure why Stan was a Democrat.

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          8 months ago

          Except in the case of x-men, “different” is on the level of world-ending superweapons.