Plausible deniability

[mutantwatch]

It's a phrase that's been in my head all week. I think they burnt it into my synapses when I was elected, along with the ability to doublespeak.

Jean-Paul's interview is out.

RG: But he DOES advocate forcing mutants to hand their identities over to the government. Controlling the population.

JPB: Yes.

I think I may come after you with a letter

Comments

[mutantwatch]

Oh, for Christ's sake. Why do you have to interpret everything I say as some perverted form of Nazi hysteria?

Yes, we're talking about kids. I don't want to see kids locked up any more than you do. I love my daughter and I'd do anything to stop her from being hurt. But sometimes kids do hurt themselves. Sometimes kids need to be helped: whether that's from voices in their heads, or energy beams from their eyes.

Kids are mandated by law to attend school. We help prepare them to face the world as adults, to be good and productive members of society. It's tough to do that if you're bouncing off the walls or shooting people every time you blink. But we figure out a way to help kids. We figure out a way to make it better.

I don't mean chaining kids to the wall of some dungeon. I mean helping them. I mean protecting everyone.

[tm_rogue]

Uh huh.

I'd be more inclined ta listen to ya, Senator, if'n when my own mutant powers started I wasn't run out of town by a lynch mob ready ta hang me from a tree. An' I was eleven.

You can say all ya want about keepin' kids safe but it means squat if'n their ain't consequences for hurtin' those kids that are deemed "dangerous".

Ya say murder is always wrong an' yet look at the local newspapers around the country. It ain't ever anythin' about how tragic it was that some poor mutant child was killed by an angry mob, its always thankful that they're now safe from the horror that was some poor kid.

Nothin's ever gonna change.

[tm_rogue]

Doesn't seem like it recently.

Its the same ol' dance. Just different names.

Instead of religion bein' the focal point for hate, its now our genes.

[tm_rogue]

You're right, Jean-Paul. It just seems hopeless at times.

[mutantwatch]

Nothing?

Things change. They do. It can be long, and hard, but things change.

I had a lot of problems 25 years ago when I married a black woman. She had a lot of problems marrying a white Irish kid. Our parents thought we were crazy. My stepdad still thinks anyone who isn't white is some kind of animated garden implement. But no one got lynched. No one said we couldn't get married. And today it's not such a weird thing.

My best friends are two gay guys. They live together. They bring up two great boys. And that's REALLY weird, or would've been, 25 years ago. It's still not normal. They still get some insults and some legal problems. But it's getting better.

I know it's hard and painful right now. But things do change. Things do get better.

There's a hate crime vote this week. I'm doing all I can to get it passed.

[tm_rogue]

There's a hate crime vote this week. I'm doing all I can to get it passed.

Good.

[tm_magneto]

You talk of protecting everyone by locking up mutants.

Why don't you lock up the humans, so that mutants have no one to hurt?

[mutantwatch]

We protect society by locking up dangerous people, mutants and non-mutants.

Taken to extremes, any position is ridiculous, including your own.

[tm_magneto]

Yes, but you want to lock up mutants by virtue of simply having powers. Typically, the humans are first required to commit a crime before they are locked up. You would have us treated as criminals before we have broken a single law.

[mutantwatch]

You're not comparing like with like. And don't throw the "equal but different" argument at me. I don't want bombs walking around waiting to go off, however innocent they may be.

[tm_magneto]

I don't want bombs walking around waiting to go off, however innocent they may be.

You disgust me.

[mutantwatch]

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ooc: ok, his real response was *sticks out tongue* but I convinced him not to be that childish.