I just don’t get people who say X-Men wasn’t “woke” until recently. It never even tried very hard to hide the metaphors…

  • Omnificer@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I saw someone complaining that the old X-men show was at least subtle and not in your face about how it approached social issues.

    This was in response to a clip from the old X-men show of a bunch of anti-mutant brownshirts in armbands getting mad that a filthy mutant was touching a human woman.

    I think it’s safe to say that person was not arguing in good faith.

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      9 months ago

      I think it’s safe to say that person was not arguing in good faith.

      Or that they missed the obvious allusions as a child and haven’t gone back and rewatched it with an adult’s knowledge of context.