I am making this post because I want an entry on February 29.
If you're wondering where on the internet I am these days, it is over at my X-Men and Avengers tumblrs, posting about the comics I'm reading every day. It's pretty cool, because sometimes people reblog and say interesting things, and sometimes they send me asks and I get to talk about these comics I love.
And then, sometimes, people say stuff that makes me really defensive of Charles Xavier.
(And, BTW, Erik’s right. You don’t dialogue with your oppressors. It’s always a trap).
Um, what? This is just downright wrong. You do talk with your oppressors. That's how civil rights movements work. Because if every oppressed minority wanted to do what Magneto is doing and wage war against the rest of the world, then we'd have a lot more mayhem happening in the world. Which leads me to:
Do you understand why that’s not cool, Charles? Do you understand, even if there WERE similarities*, why it isn’t going to be productive?
* There really aren’t. I’m not like an expert in fucking Nazi ideology or whatever, but anyone who’s read anything Hitler wrote should understand this. Erik needs to be understood as a militant liberationist, not a fascist.
Nazi ideology (simplified): Germans are superior race. Everyone else is inferior and we will kill them.
Magneto ideology (sometimes): Mutants are superior race. Everyone else is inferior and I will kill them.
I say sometimes, because Magneto's point of view changes throughout the comics, but there are definitely times when the above is absolutely true, and it's not unfair to draw parallels between the two. I guess what it boils down to in the end is the whole "Magneto was right" attitude. To which I say: Magneto was not right, because he wants to commit genocide.
So, yes. I continue to have a lot of feelings about the X-Men. Still not too many about the Avengers, but Iron Man is delighting me right now, because I'm up to the point where Tony's armor becomes sentient and is creepy in-love obsessed with Tony. It is great, y'all.
And then, sometimes, people say stuff that makes me really defensive of Charles Xavier.
(And, BTW, Erik’s right. You don’t dialogue with your oppressors. It’s always a trap).
Um, what? This is just downright wrong. You do talk with your oppressors. That's how civil rights movements work. Because if every oppressed minority wanted to do what Magneto is doing and wage war against the rest of the world, then we'd have a lot more mayhem happening in the world. Which leads me to:
Do you understand why that’s not cool, Charles? Do you understand, even if there WERE similarities*, why it isn’t going to be productive?
* There really aren’t. I’m not like an expert in fucking Nazi ideology or whatever, but anyone who’s read anything Hitler wrote should understand this. Erik needs to be understood as a militant liberationist, not a fascist.
Nazi ideology (simplified): Germans are superior race. Everyone else is inferior and we will kill them.
Magneto ideology (sometimes): Mutants are superior race. Everyone else is inferior and I will kill them.
I say sometimes, because Magneto's point of view changes throughout the comics, but there are definitely times when the above is absolutely true, and it's not unfair to draw parallels between the two. I guess what it boils down to in the end is the whole "Magneto was right" attitude. To which I say: Magneto was not right, because he wants to commit genocide.
So, yes. I continue to have a lot of feelings about the X-Men. Still not too many about the Avengers, but Iron Man is delighting me right now, because I'm up to the point where Tony's armor becomes sentient and is creepy in-love obsessed with Tony. It is great, y'all.