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Being on the X-Men fandom as a Charles Xavier, Magneto, Rogue, and Kitty Pryde fan is not for the weak.

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casp1an-sea

if you want magneto to be played by a Jewish man (as he should be) you should also want gambit to be played by a Cajun man

mossadspydolphin

And Doctor Doom and the Maximoff twins should be played by Romani actors

sweaterkittensahoy

"Magneto can't be a Holocaust survivor! It's been too long!"

"Magneto can't be young and a Holocaust survivor in the new X-Men movie because the Holocaust was too long ago!"

Secondary mutation, functionally immortal. Brought out when he was experimented on in the camps but did not realize until he got older and didn't die or got older and didn't age.

Fixed it. If Emma Frost can turn to diamond, Magneto can be an immortal Holocaust survivor.

aggressivelycareful

No, no. They're right. It was too long ago.

October 7, however was merely three years ago, so—

sweaterkittensahoy

indecisiveavocado

But October 7 and the Shoah are fundamentally different.

I don't just mean in scale, although that is a crucial element that can't be avoided. I mean in type. I understand that October 7 feels familiar, even if you've not a survivor or even a descendant of one; images so very like October 7 hover at the margins of the Jewish psyche, phantom memories we carry with us everywhere.

But that's precisely why we should be wary. Yes, October 7 was horrific. Yes, it was reminiscent of pogroms and the Shoah.

But there is still an important difference: On October 7, we had an army. We had a state.

In the Shoah, we didn't. We had to plead with the British to send people from the Mandate to die and maybe take down a few Nazis with them. We had to beg the world to maybe consider taking in a few of us threatened most immediately with death, and we had to be rejected. We had to document in excruciating detail how we were being exterminated, and then we had to take that information and try to convince indifferent world governments to act to stop, because we were so very dependent on indifferent world governments.

And that's not true with October 7. October 7 was catastrophic. Horrific. The response devastating.

But it demonstrates rather neatly a few of the promises of Zionism, even as it broke them into so many pieces.

October 7 shows that the world is still indifferent-at-best to our death. But we are not fighting the fight of the doomed. Not anymore.

October 7 shows that Jews may still be unsafe, even today, for being Jewish. But we do not need to beg and plead to be able to go somewhere slightly safer. Not anymore.

October 7 shows that Jewish blood may still be spilled. But not without consequence. Not anymore.

daughterofstories

Which is why, in Magneto's Holocaust origin, malnutrition and illness stunted his growth so that he didn't develop his powers and become terrifying to antisemites and mutant haters until years later.

Whereas a rebooted Magneto who survived Oct 7 would have had his powers manifest during the attack, and all terrorists he could see would have been promptly and violently impaled by the nearest metal object.

indecisiveavocado

(yes, I know someone else posted the gif. This definitely did not infuriate me and delay my posting of this.)

mossadspydolphin

Whereas a rebooted Magneto who survived Oct 7 would have had his powers manifest during the attack, and all terrorists he could see would have been promptly and violently impaled by the nearest metal object.