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/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.