#and even Genosha in the new '97 show felt way more like Krakoa than the South African Apartheid metaphor Genosha originally was
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Imo the X-Men are at their best when they're doing queer allegory and at their worst when they're veering into sanitized idealized Zionism
#not saying they don't do race allegory well#and other forms of bigotry#but the metaphor often is usually the least muddled when it's queer#krakoa was so uncomfortable guys it was literally the “land without a people for a people without a land” myth taken at face value#and even Genosha in the new '97 show felt way more like Krakoa than the South African Apartheid metaphor Genosha originally was#the “final solution” to the “mutant issue�� being not that discrimination is bad#but that they are a fundamentally different species than humans and inherently need to live separately to have peace#is not the progressive ideal happy ending that it tries to present itself as and just has so many uncomfy real world implications#x-men#x men#xmen#genosha#queer#politics#lgbt#lgbtq#palestine#free palestine
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