NanoSteps Brainstorming 2 - Stepping Out

[Shepherd]

Pyeknu wrote:

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Matrix Dragon wrote:

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And the writers that weren't doing him as a moustache twirling parody tended to have him working on the theory that this was the only approach that wouldn't lead to concentration camps and gas chambers (God I hate Marvels approach to racism.)

Agreed.  When I was reading X-Men in the 1980s, it seemed to me that every person that the characters encountered was ready to hate natural born metas (to borrow the Yizibajohei phrase from the universe of my stories) without seeing the good side of things.  I mean yeah, there'd be the odd bigot in real life, but jeez . . .!  It just got too depressing for me at times; I guess that's why I gravitated away from this stuff when Mike Smith came along in the early 1990s to introduce me to anime as anime.

It's even worse than that. There was a 1980s issue of X-Factor where agents of The Right (an anti-mutant organization) flew around New York City in armored suits with smiley faces and blasted things while shouting about how they were dangerous mutants out to destroy humanity. Everyone who saw this agreed that mutants were dangerous and inhuman monsters. Apparently, they all hated and feared mutants, but not a single witness had the slightest idea what a mutant actually was.
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