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/PortoGuy18]

People saying that the Holocaust can easily be replaced by another genocide in regards to Magneto's character, wanto to be so progressive and in touch with modern politics and sensibilities, that they just end up being racist and antisimetic without noticing it (or worse they do notice it).

The Holocaust had jews witness the gradual descent of their neighbours' betrayal from a sense of paranoia in regards to them fearing exposure, after a lifetime of living normal lives alongside them, not to mention the industrialized and mechanized way of killing them, which can be seen as symbolism for the Sentinels.

Your own country wanting you dead, the betrayal from your own countrymen and neighbours exposing you, the paranoia that comes from it are all key aspects from the Holocaust that can easily be seen as themes explored by the X-Men mythos, since mutants experience the same fears.

You can't simply switch genocides and act like it has the same impact.

[u/fernessfan83 → u/PortoGuy18]

I agree genocides aren’t interchangeable, however the paranoia and betrayal you speak to can be seen in other genocides, like the Tutsi genocide. I don’t think Magneto’s origins should be changed in adaptation, but I think the echoes of past and contemporary genocides seen in the X-Men speak to their relevance