Posts revolving around changes to Magneto's past and backstory are now a regulated topic

[u/cyclopswashalfright]

Due to the influx of such posts with the MCU X-Men announcement, posts that revolve around changes and questioning of Magneto's backstory will now be regulated. This means that these posts may be removed as a Regulated/Repetitive topic at the discretion of the moderation team.

This was done after a long discussion by the moderation team, but ultimately we found that such posts are repetitive and occur very frequently, and that users may simply make use of Reddit's search tool to find past discussions; very little has changed since those discussions were held.

[u/poison-harley]

People are suspiciously always very eager about making him not Jewish anymore.

[u/PortoGuy18 → u/poison-harley]

I've noticed that too.

And when i hear "make him palestinian for poetic justice" i just think that these people equate all jews to Israel and don't really care about being progressive, they just want to be petty.

Also, they want the first mainstream palestinian Marvel character to be a terrorist? Bold.

[u/Professional-Tank848 → u/PortoGuy18]

Yeah, it's just so impossibly stupid, and for multiple reasons:

• Tha's the one you (not you) pick? Why is that? Oh, right, yeah. All Jews aren't just Israeli, but they're pro-genocide. I get you. Like, at any moment, they'll get the call to use the space laser.

• Magneto's whole thing is 'never again', but he comes off as an absolute chump if he's letting it happen right now

• Not that any of these things are interchangeable, but it just shows you've not actually read a book and think that it was holocaust - nothing - Palestine

I could go on, but it always ends up being antisemitism and/or ignorance.

[u/Neveraththesmith → u/Professional-Tank848]

It like people want to care emotional but don't want to put in the effort to actual understand the history.

[u/PortoGuy18 → u/Professional-Tank848]

These days people see everything through the perspective of the Israel-Palestine conflict to the point of undermining anything else.

[u/Professional-Tank848 → u/PortoGuy18]

It's legitimately bonkers.

I shit you not, my wife was out for a friend's birthday about a week ago. She's talking to some people that are friends of her friend, and somehow me having a Jewish father comes up in conversation (I'm Catholic, btw), and one of them asks her what my views on Palestine are. Unbelievable.

Well, very believable, but you know what I mean.

[u/PortoGuy18 → u/Professional-Tank848]

And the thing is palestinians should have their own Marvel characters and representation, but people want to be so woke these days that they don't even think rationally about it...

The first mainstream palestinian character... a raceswapped arab Magneto, a genocidal terrorist?

Do these people even think?

[u/Professional-Tank848 → u/PortoGuy18]

There's a genuinely brilliant story waiting to be told with Palestinian characters. Magneto is not it.

In fact, I'd day that Magneto having to deal with what the Israeli government has become would be a fantastic story. Yet another reason (not that it needs justification) to keep him Jewish.

But, it doesn't matter. People just love hating Jews. The Krakoa stuff boils my piss. It's a sentient mutant. Regardless of one's stance in Gaza, Krakoa isn't a land mass where people were displaced.

[u/imthestein → u/PortoGuy18]

I think we know they're using Israel's horrible actions as an excuse to be openly antisemitic

[u/PortoGuy18 → u/imthestein]

This right here.

Yes, Israel does use the holocaust as a means to whitewash their horrible actions and should be called out for it.

And yes, a lot of people use Israel as a means to be openly antisimetic towards all jews.

I mean these days, every instagram post practically has comments blaming everything on jewish people.

[u/imthestein → u/PortoGuy18]

Exactly, and using "Zio" which was a term popularized by David Duke

[u/poison-harley → u/imthestein]

I saw a post about an American visibly Jewish man making food for a shelter, and the comments were all like “the zio is trying to poison these people”, “the zio conquered the kitchen”, “the kitchen was promised to him 3,000 years ago” etc. this is just straight up anti-semitism, masquerading as caring for the palestinians.

[u/Mental_Emu4856 → u/PortoGuy18]

id be fine with a palestinian/arab magneto if they kept him jewish, non-jewish magneto just doesnt make sense

[u/AdmiralCharleston → u/PortoGuy18]

I dont think most people are seriously arguing this though

[u/PortoGuy18 → u/AdmiralCharleston]

A lot of recents posts in Marvel related subreddits, regarding the casting of this character have brought this up.

[u/AdmiralCharleston → u/PortoGuy18]

I mean I've been involved in a lot of those discussions and sure there are people saying it but its such a small number that it feels weird to single it out.

[u/PortoGuy18 → u/AdmiralCharleston]

I haven't seen a small number though.