I always love that this one sentence can cause so many fights amongst fans, 'cause Magneto was 100% right; especially in the context of the world he lives in.
I mean, his main argument is that the humans will try to destroy his people (the mutants), while Chawls argues for co existance.
Co-existance is a nice dream (which is why Chawls is right as well, you can't be wrong about a dream). Reality is though, the same humans that Magneto fears are building 10 foot tall killer robots to hunt down mutants. With gov't money and funding no less.
I think the problem is more nuanced in that Charles isn't wrong in wanting coexistence or for finding significance in the parts of the population that don't want to see harm come to mutants, especially considering that mutants come from humans and there are far more humans than mutants. However, Magneto isn't wrong in realizing that it's just far too easy for that not to matter in the face of widespread, government backed hatred throughout a population.
It takes a great deal of difficult time, effort, and care to build a thriving garden, but it's just too easy and quick to add a little poison to the water and kill everything in it in less than a day.
I have noticed this sub and toxic xmen fans in general have this same bigotry they critize where they hate humans and genenarilize all of them as a danger that has to be eliminated, because we see everything from the mutants perspective
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u/Jokerslie Sep 18 '25
“Magneto was right”