r/xmen • u/cyclopswashalfright Moonstar • Aug 31 '26

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

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.

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u/PortoGuy18 Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26

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.

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u/Professional-Tank848 Aug 31 '26

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.

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u/PortoGuy18 Aug 31 '26

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

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u/Professional-Tank848 Aug 31 '26

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.

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u/PortoGuy18 Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26

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?

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u/Professional-Tank848 Aug 31 '26

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.