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I have never read X-men comics, but I saw animations and films.

One of the film shows Magneto as a holocaust survivor.

Also he doesn't care about non mutans, and wants to kill whose are powerless.

In the X-men evolution animated series he even made a country.

I cannot imagined how the writers decided this background, how could somebody who also suffered and seen death make more from that.

There's almost too much to unpack here, but I'm Jewish and Magneto is my special interest character, so I'm going to do it anyway.

You're admitting you don't actually know Magneto lore. Let's start from the top, shall we? His family is brutally murdered by Nazis when he's under ten. He's shot point blank, gets put in a mass grave, and digs his way out as the sole survivor. He's captured by Nazis forced to work the ovens in Auschwitz. He escapes with a gentile, non-mutant woman whom he marries and has a kid with. They settle in Ukraine, where his daughter is killed by arson set by the state police. Magneto loses his shit and accidentally kills the entire town. (Because he finally has powers, now that he's eating regularly) His wife panics and leaves. He flees to Israel and meets Charles Xavier; they fight a Nazi, win, and Magneto admits that he disagrees with Charles and believes in a proactive approach. Magneto becomes a Nazi hunter. He winds up arresting someone who was working for the US Government, so they kill his girlfriend while she's on top of him. That's fucking traumatic as hell, and ALL OF THIS happens before X-Men #1. Magneto is beyond traumatized and the fact that he's not constantly crying says a lot, actually.

I'm not going to summarize 70 years of comics. Magneto is a complicated figure. And he's incredibly distilled in the movies and shows.

Magneto doesn't hate people without powers. He married one, he's dated several, and he's friends with a whole bunch. He doesn't want to eradicate humans. He is just trying to protect his people from being wiped out, which, you know, has happened. Repeatedly.

So let's talk about that country he has, yes? Genosha. (It only appears in a big way in "Wolverine and the X-Men", which is, by the way, the worst X-Men cartoon.) That cartoon doesn't give you the backstory of it, which is this:

Genosha was a poor island nation that suddenly became prosperous because they enslaved all their mutants and humans carrying a mutant gene. They brutally oppress a huge chunk of their population.

The X-men dismantle their government and free the slaves, which sparks a massive civil war. The reason why Magneto takes over is because he demands a place for mutants to live in peace and the UN figures they can hit two birds with one stone. They specifically say that Magneto will be too focused on the civil war to attack other countries.

Magneto takes over Genosha specifically to quell the unrest there. There's not a long standing connection between mutants and Genosha, the way there is for Jews and Israel. Genosha isn't bombing humans without the gene, nor are they colonizing it. It's not a metaphor for Israel. It's a metaphor for South Africa. This has been repeatedly stated, and surprise! Genosha is, canonically, an island off the coast of South Africa.

Guess what happens to Genosha?

It gets bombed to hell by Sentinels. Sixteen million people die. Magneto survives that.

Let's talk about the other mutant homelands. Magneto started with Avalon, which was an orbiting satellite. No one was getting displaced. It was just a place for mutants to live quietly. It got shot down.

More recently, we have Krakoa, which is a mutant paradise built on a living island. It wasn't inhabited. People weren't displaced. They weren't at war with other countries. Humans still managed to kill a hundred unpowered people and send all the mutants to outer space. Hell, Krakoa expanded to Mars and made it livable, and now that's being destroyed by humans, too.

In the X-Men universe, we have humans who dissemble mutants to turn human beings into weapons, build sentinels, enslave mutants, create cures for mutation, force the cure on people, blow up school buses full of mutant children, and that's not counting the run of the mill anti-mutant hatred that forces a whole group of people to live in the sewers.

Magneto was right. Humans consistently try to wipe out mutants. They start building giant robots to kill children. They legislate who can have kids and make mutants register. Magneto is absolutely correct and Charles Xavier is, time and time again, proven wrong. You cannot just act nice until people give you basic human rights.

The Holocaust is a historical event. It was a real thing that happened, in reality. Not in the comic books. It wasn't a lesson. The Holocaust didn't happen so Jews could learn to be nice to everyone else. We were already doing that! Jews were just existed and they murdered us anyway. The people who are alive today, in the Israeli government and military, are real people. The Palestinians who are dying in droves are real people. The Israeli civilians who were abducted, raped, and murdered are real people. This isn't a parable about how you wind up becoming the thing you fought against. It's reality. And the reality for millions of people is more complicated than this narrow view you've constructed.

You are doing an incredible disservice to all the people in Israel and Palestine by reducing them to a single comic book character, one who you don't even understand.

I could go on, but honestly? I'm tired. I'm sick of defending my existence to people who think I should be murdered for living. I'm sick of trying to explain that this is a conflict that dates back millennia to people who don't care because it's too complicated and they can't graft the entire thing onto a TV show or a movie.

All I can add is

There were no rape on Oct 7. I am tired of your hasbara. This is why you won't understand what I have wroten.

if you or someone you know might need it in the next few years, purchase plan b. the shelf life of plan b is 4 years, and we might not be able to access it as easily as we can now in the days ahead.

if you are larger/plus size: go online and purchase ella instead of plan b. plan b is less effective if you aren’t under 160 pounds.

if you can, purchase books that project 2025 is looking to ban.

mass deportations are starting. if you see ice vehicles or agents, yell ice raid and la migra as loud as you can.

if someone asks who you voted for, keep your mouth shut. they’re fishing for traitors.

if anyone, anyone at all asks about your neighbors or their legal status in the us, you know nothing. don’t be the reason that their family is separated.

if anyone asks about your religion or lack thereof, keep it vague. this administration will look for any excuse to persecute you.

your friends are trans or queer? for the next four years they’re not. don’t expose anyone’s status as a trans or queer person to anyone else, even if you think you can trust them.

did someone you know get an abortion? no, they didn’t. they were never pregnant.

in short, don’t be a snitch, and keep to yourself these next four years. we’ll make it through this even if it seems hopeless at times.

We live in a world where the collonisation still active. We see what's happening in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, South-America Etc...

We see that millions of people dyeing because the collonisers wants pieces of the land.

People under the propaganda machine start to wake up and see this in the first time.

Like the protagonists saw in the first episode of the series.

We have to fight our freedom in real life and this Digital age where we put videos and scripts online and the evils keep shadowbaning and blocking happens trought the media.

It is a Digital war too. Even if we dont have digimon. And we reached the point already where we can say Patamon is evil, because Pegazus is a spyware.

Children and adults rise up in campus and trough the streets to stop our world explotation.

And there are people who start to wake up when they are finaly see trough the propaganda, and start to speak up what was like ,what could be their goal. Like Koiuchi. 

And what if the bad ending what the fandom says by Magnagarurumon and Kaisergreymon are just a point that countries can't do anything alone they need to work together to stop the evil. Like when they give their vote to the people who are they trust. And make unions organisations which can help them, like the BRICS,  UN,  EU, Greenpeace etc... The problem here that the people can't work alone, and they need to let go their control. Which are still can make problems if the systems go korrupt. 

There was a character who went trought colonisation even if we didn't paid attention, and that was supposed to be a good guy. It is Shutumon/Zephyrmon.

The anime series was run 2002-2003. 

The USA started to airing late 2002. 

The Iraqi war started in 2003.

Why do I think this is important? 

Shutu a Mesopotamian wind good. Mesopatamia was in the today's Iraq.

Zephyrus is a greek/roman god. The god of the West wind, and brother of Lucifer.

The West is a colonial power. Therefore the character made an error throught the English translation. 

What I want to talk about is Crusadermon. One of the first attemps of Western colonisation were the Crusades. And the character symbolised perfectly the landgrabs. And Lucemon showed that even if they work for the empire, they can be killed. Like the Hannibal directive in Israel.

What I forgot about that Africa's train system is always going out of the countries to the seaports. Why? Because they can loot the minerals that way more easier.

This is one of those images that I will never forget, one that should be etched into our collective memory of the genocidal horrors of Gaza.

This is Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, forced to walk out of the Kamal Adwan hospital in north Gaza towards Israeli tanks to be taken captive by Israeli forces. His whereabouts are still unknown since this picture was taken yesterday (28 December 2024) and the hospital has been burnt down since.

His crime? He maintained his oath as a doctor and refused to abandon his patients.

01x06/07x02

They're already selling the artifacts.

never forget that these prison labour “schools,” who used the boys for free farm labour and infrastructure development in nearby settler towns, and used the girls for free laundry, kitchen labour, and sewing, whether in america or canada, had graveyards.

in canada, specifically, the children were subject to government starvation experiments and deprived of specific nutrients to study the effect on their health, for the benefit of cereal manufacturers. this human experimentation led to the understanding of vital nutrients for settler children, and their inclusion on cereal packets, by learning what would happen if you starved native children of them.

if it's a rock and you lick it, your tongue got a little dirty.

If it's a bone, it sticks to your tongue.