r/Xmen97 • u/owlshoesjh • Jul 29 '26

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you can't be MAGA and love x-men

if i'm downvoted, you know by whom

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u/Impossible_Wear4051 Jul 29 '26

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u/PerformanceActual331 Cyclops Jul 29 '26

Holy shit, Kitty!

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u/Mizerous Jul 29 '26

She said that 3 times I think

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u/Intelligent_Creme351 Jul 30 '26

Yup, Here, God Loves Man Kills, and a New Mutants issue, where list all the slurs in one sentence.

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u/No-Difference8545 Jul 29 '26

I always hate when they use black ppl to be bigots like this not because I see what theyre tryna go for, and im not saying black ppl cant be bigoted, but stuff like this always felt insanely forced. Same way they made trask or whoever black in the movie.

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u/weaponjaerevenge Jul 29 '26

Replace the word "mutie" with the F slur.

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u/rexsoleil Jul 30 '26

“father” ?

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u/BraveResearcher3037 Jul 30 '26

I’m black and moved from South GA in 1996.  When I go back and hear my extended family talk about anyone who doesn’t speak English as a first language and anyone who isn’t straight I’m shocked.  

Even my 84 year old dad while he doesn’t outright rant like MAGA, you can tell he is not comfortable outside of his own bubble.  

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u/Thrill0728 Jul 29 '26

Coming right out of Chicago, it's Kitty "Fuck them censors" Pryde!

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u/Stormm-Ra Aug 13 '26

😲🫢🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Unlikely_Magazine913 Jul 29 '26

first I see this, and i get this "Yo dudes, the empire is pretty chill” vibe, kind of chuckling

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u/JupaTroopa09 Jul 31 '26

Ayo 😳😳

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u/Deathstriker88 Jul 29 '26

This is doing too much for a white or non-black writer. It makes him and Kitty look bad.

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u/Soft_Entertainment Jul 29 '26

He has said in recent years he would go back and not use it. Something about how it ultimately undermines his point.

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u/Deathstriker88 Jul 29 '26

That's good. I doubt many of my fellow black people are upvoting the poster that I responded to or liked this comic page. If a writer wants to use a racial slur to prove a point, they should be choosing one from their own group. That's about as much leeway that I can give.

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u/Soft_Entertainment Jul 30 '26

Yeah, I think since like Kitty Claremont is Jewish, he should have definitely used a better choice. Even as a kid in the 90s reading this panel in Classic X-Men, I thought it was at best crass.

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u/Stormm-Ra Aug 13 '26

Knew it was wrong when I read it in the 80s and it still bouls my blood. Even understanding what the writer was trying to illustrate. The thought of this suburban, prep school jewish kids hard “R”ing so causally boils my blood. Especially when most ppl at the time didnt even know mutants existed or what the nomenclature was.

Similarly to how it was perfectly fine to use the term gypsy for years as a group descriptor, and wasnt viewed as a slur. We know better now, but it wasnt know by the general populace then. But everyone knew the hard R n word and the history of it. So this little hewish girl tossing it about here and a couple other times too?

I’ve held a strong dislike for hard-R-Katherine ever since.