Fear of mutants is understandable.

I don't condone hating them.

But I understand why someone could fear a person who might blow their whole town, when they unlock their mutant powers.

I don't see it as simple as bigots in the real world fearing trans or gay people.

In my opinion, krakoa is the best thing that has ever happened to mutant and human kind.

Well see theres an important distinction hear.

Fear of something dangerous is understandable. Mutants have potential to be dangerous. Caution might be understandable.

Using that fear to justify bigotry is irrational. Creating religious organizations based around murdering mutant children, thats irrational. Creating government sterilization policies to cause genocide, thats irrational. Funding genocide machines, thats irrational.

Hell, the humans go so far as to invent an AI which overtakes humanity. So they do the thing they fear out of fear. Thats irrational.

But yeah fear and caution is understandable. But fear when left unchecked turns into hatred. Hatred turns into radicalism.

You could say "we're concerns that mutants are developing dangerous powers they cant control, which could harm people" and then turn that into "so we will be funding resources like the xavier school to help ensure mutant needs are met properly with the best information we have available" and that would like solve a lot more problems than "so we are proposing to wipe them out"

But we have also seen ways in which mutant bigotry has mimicked lgbt bigotry. Or ableism. Or xenophobia. In comics you see that bigotry come out in a lot of different ways. The idea alone that a person just existing as their true self is seen as a danger, is seen as bad, is seen as a sin, is seen as contagious, is seen as a threat to a way of life, is seen as wrong or not normal, etc. Those are experiences queer folks know well, and those are themes heavily present in comics. Theres also been stories of mutant who pass as normal who have to hide who they are. Pretty heavy queer themed.

But its not just like queer bigotry. Its meant to be all forms of bigotry. Racism, sexism, ablism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, really any of the isms you can tthink of, it probably fits the mutant analogy.

Of course, I agree that using this fear as an excuse to commit genocide is wrong. The mutant has no say in how their powers manifest, and how destructive it could be.

Exactly. So thats where i separate the concept.

Fear of immigration for example is to some degree rational. You could be concerned about any number of risks that come in with unvetted immigration.

But to use that to preach hate towards immigrants would be irrational.

Rather you could use those fears to strengthen immigration.

Fear itself isnt bad, its when its used to justify irrational actions that it becomes particularly bad.

Thats one of the reasons i used the example of queer bigotry. One of the eays you see it expressed in the US is people who fear lgbt and who dont understand it. They spread this idea that lgbt people are trying to convert children. That libraries and schools are passing some kind of gay agenda to groom children tk be gay or trans.

Really what queer people are doing is making accessible spaces where people can learn its okay and safe to be who they are, providing education acces so that these topics arent stigmatized, or taboo.

But the way bigotry took form is accusing lgbt people of being child predators. Banning the use of lgbt education in schools. Banning books that talk about sex or gender education.

Thats fear of something different from yourself or unknown, turned into irrational and harmful actions, which further enforces othering.

Thats not too different than logic we see to justify mutant bigotry.

Its goes

A group emerges>group is different>lack of understanding>fear of unknown>misinformation arises>hatred emerges>moral panic emerges>attempts to dehumanize emerge>full segregation>and finally, radical action.

That tends to be a pathway a lot of issues follow.

Fear of LGBT is completely illogical, unreasonable, it's based on something made up that's not real. Like lgbt grooming children or forcing some kind of Evil agenda. It's completely bullshit. You shouldn't fear something that doesn't exist.

But fear of mutants is based on something that could actually happen, or has already happened.

it'll take one omega level mutant with a god complex who thinks humans are beneath him, to complete obliterate all of human kind. The heroes of the earth have to fail once, and it's all gone.

With LGBT, people are afraid of bullshit stories that they themselves have made up.

With mutants, the threat to humanity is very real.

In my opinion, fear of lgbt is worse then fear of mutants. You literally making shit up to be afraid of.

They both have similarities, but I don't see them as the same.

Right but you see stuff like religious groups saying mutantdom is a sin which needs to be abolished, which follows the very same trajectory.

Really comes down the same illogical pathway that all ste.s from fear, othering, and a lack of knowing.

The fundamentals are very similar, yes.

I agree with Slyme Quin. In the TV shows, movies, and comics that I read, Mutants were seen as less than human. They were discriminated against, proper judged them; and more. I think one cool fact that most ppl might not know is the reason the X-Men were created. The X-Men were created during the Civil Rights Movement. Just like how African Americans were subject to prejudice, racism, and discrimination, so were Mutants.