MystikIncarnate,

I’m just saying, the primary antagonist of the X-Men franchise was magneto. This is a man who will stop at nothing to either make all people into mutants, whether they want it or not, or destroy them for not being mutants.

On the human side, magneto was mostly fighting against people who would otherwise not care about him being a mutant, other than the fact that he’s trying to kill them for not being a mutant.

Professor X is the staple of the show that defines it: where he fights in the Senate and other government institutions to have them respect the rights of mutants as people (which they are), and fights against magneto trying to kill everyone and take over, and on top of that, he gets flack from the Trump supporters anti mutant folks for being a mutant. The professor is fighting on all fronts to stop the prejudice and have all people, regardless of their mutant status, seen as equals, in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

If you can’t see the correlation to pretty much every civil liberty movement ever, from the women’s rights movements and the black suffrage movement, and the whole slavery thing… As well as more modern movements for gay rights and LGBTQ+ rights, etc… The list is long…

Well, if someone can’t put that together then, IMO, they’re blind. At the most basic, here are people who are quantifiably different, persecuted on all sides, fighting for the right to exist.

How blind do you have to be to not see the very obvious correlations?

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