watching x-men and thinking “yea those human supremacists had good points” is a big read flag, like most x-men stories arent subtle at all by making most their enemies literal nazis
Yeah. Comparing the mutants to real world marginalized groups isnt the cleanest metaphor because some mutants have world ending powers which no black/gay/trans/autistic/ect people have. Ive seen left cultural critics make this point. But this guy is relating to the actual fash in the comics. Big red flag.
The ruling class think trans people have world ending powers. They’re scared that it rocks the foundation of patriarchy too much and that patriarchy and the nuclear family is a pillar of capitalism.
The “world ending” powers of marginalised groups are less obvious and require deep analysis to understand, but they exist.
Yeah even if he has a point he’s expressing it in absolutely the worst terms. At core I agree, these metaphors are bad because when you have to explain them to people you end up also making racism rational, when it fundamentally isn’t. I think maybe Jack Saint talked about this in the context of Zootopia, where the racism directed at predators is based on a history of violence and actual concrete biological distinctions that make one group objectively more capable of hurting people than another.
But to express that criticism as “I hope we can do a genocide on these people” is the most way to say it.
watching x-men and thinking “yea those human supremacists had good points” is a big read flag, like most x-men stories arent subtle at all by making most their enemies literal nazis
Yeah. Comparing the mutants to real world marginalized groups isnt the cleanest metaphor because some mutants have world ending powers which no black/gay/trans/autistic/ect people have. Ive seen left cultural critics make this point. But this guy is relating to the actual fash in the comics. Big red flag.
The ruling class think trans people have world ending powers. They’re scared that it rocks the foundation of patriarchy too much and that patriarchy and the nuclear family is a pillar of capitalism.
The “world ending” powers of marginalised groups are less obvious and require deep analysis to understand, but they exist.
Very good point. Thank you.
Yeah even if he has a point he’s expressing it in absolutely the worst terms. At core I agree, these metaphors are bad because when you have to explain them to people you end up also making racism rational, when it fundamentally isn’t. I think maybe Jack Saint talked about this in the context of Zootopia, where the racism directed at predators is based on a history of violence and actual concrete biological distinctions that make one group objectively more capable of hurting people than another.
But to express that criticism as “I hope we can do a genocide on these people” is the most
way to say it.