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Now one of my main trustful surce of information.
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.
And now I see. They copied him from the real word.
The audacity to take a fictional, Jewish Holocaust survivor, created by Jewish men, and try to claim that he's somehow a reflection of how actual Israelis act... is absurd. It's antisemitic and it's offensive.
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
Way to reveal yourself liberal cionist. There are real Jews out here who condemn the IOF.
There were no rape on Oct 7. I am tired of your hasbara. This is why you won't understand what I have wroten.
The where is daddy AI is a sentinel towards the Palestinians. Dont tell me it is a must.




















