I just don’t get people who say X-Men wasn’t “woke” until recently. It never even tried very hard to hide the metaphors…

  • NielsBohron@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I think it’s safe to say that person was not arguing in good faith.

    Or that they missed the obvious allusions as a child and haven’t gone back and rewatched it with an adult’s knowledge of context.

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      8 months ago

      I’m usually fine giving the benefit of the doubt, but this comment was in direct response to a scene from the show that was absolutely blatant, so they had to wilfully ignore that.