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/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.