• chaogomu
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    3911 months ago

    Add in heavy elements of anti-racisim and you have a more accurate picture.

    Mutants were the marginalized, of every stripe.

    After all, the early 60s we’re the height of the civil rights movement. The human enemies in the comics were saying shit that was lifted whole cloth from what white supremacists were saying in the US.

        • Jojo
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          111 months ago

          I took a survey recently that asked if I thought people were too sensitive about things other people say and I couldn’t bring myself to say disagree completely, because so many people are so sensitive about the idea of someone else being hurt by something

        • @thantik
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          -311 months ago

          Given that Mutants were written more for all marginalized groups and not JUST LGB individuals is the point here. But yeah, “anyone who doesn’t agree with me is literally hitler” is the appropriate lemmy-take on it.

          • @Dozzi92
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            511 months ago

            Lemmy is definitely black and white but your comment didn’t exactly read that way. I don’t think you’re Hitler though, shit just gets lost easily in text.

            • @thantik
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              11 months ago

              Because back in the 60s-80s, the T hadn’t been adopted yet?

              From about 1988, activists began to use the initialism LGBT in the United States. Not until the 1990s within the movement did gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people gain equal respect.

              The transgenderism movement hasn’t really been accepted widely until rather recently, in fact. EVEN with “LGBT” becoming a thing in the early 90s. There was some discussion of “this being a thing since the beginning” – so I’m referencing that time period in relation to that part of the discussion.

                • @thantik
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                  -111 months ago

                  I see you didn’t read what I wrote.

                  There was some discussion of “this being a thing since the beginning” – so I’m referencing that time period in relation to that part of the discussion.