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dancing_cactuar posted...

Mutants as an analogy for marginalized people never fucking worked in my book because at least where I'm from, black people and the gay community don't have the ability to shoot laser beams out of their eyeballs, control the weather, or just be a permanent walking cloud of poison like that one Ultimate comic where a kid that accidentally killed 265 people including his parents is killed by Wolverine.

It also doesn't work in universe for Marvel because you have a bunch of people with superpowers to the point where you have shit like House of M Spiderman just pretending to be a mutant the whole time.

I feel it works better in the Marvel universe specifically because anybody can get super powers, but only mutants get singled out - over the arbitrary difference that theyre born with their powers.

The arbitrariness is what makes the racism feel more real to me.