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That's how the original comics were written... in 1963.
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.
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
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.
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.
LGB? Why no T?
Because back in the 60s-80s, the T hadn't been adopted yet?
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.
I see you didn't understand the question, why did you leave it out?
I see you didn't read what I wrote.