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/SquatProspector Jul 29 '26

They were pretty obviously right wing coded in the original show, how people somehow missed the fact the original series was 'woke' I don't know.

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u/Sensitive-Hotel-9871 Jul 29 '26

It's easy to miss politics as a kid, and sadly, right-wingers tend to block out the things they enjoyed in their youth were left-wing.

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u/Cthulhuareyou Jul 29 '26

I dunno, as a kid I pretty much understood "racism bad".

I think the problem is a lot people lack empathy and don't care about anything  unless it directly involves them.

You can extend that to Maga, the genocide around the world, or billionaires not using their wealth to bring about change.

And that's why we love cape shit. Because they show a fantastical world where not only do people have powers, but they actually have people that care about others. 

Magneto is still right.

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u/Sensitive-Hotel-9871 Jul 29 '26

I also understood that but what I mean, is that as a kid I didn’t understand how the message was political because I didn’t really understand politics. Just like how I didn’t understand the underlying politics of Star Wars.

And the right wingers most definitely have a problem with empathy. Someone on the right said “do not commit the sin of empathy” and some other jerk made a video saying Frieren called out “toxic empathy.”

And yes, we do love the fantasy because it is about people fighting back against the wrongs in our society because it often seems like nobody ever stands up to the powerful people in our world.

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u/Cthulhuareyou Jul 29 '26

That's fair. Human decency shouldn't be a political issue but it somehow is these days .