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I know you're all gonna read this and just be like "Jesus, fuck that Madin guy, they're still clearly a card carrying Brotherhood member" and 1) I'm not and 2) this is important.

I don't comment on social media much or anything but there's this one lady that's being going viral on tiktok lately. Her name is Ayame and she is fuuuuuucked. So the conservatives love her.

[embedded video of a woman speaking, saying "I realize that I ask much of my fellow mutants, but we must establish limits on those perceived to be limitless. Society can only function with boundaries and rules, and we must continue to work to find a way to be a part of it; to not press so hard against those markers as to disturb the peace."]

You don't have to agree with me but it's important that you know about this. People like her? They want us back in the box. Limited. Tame. They want us to be fully managed by humans so that we're never a threat.

We don't get mutant liberation by listening to what they have to say.

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From:

xp_madin

You realise that when we talk mutant liberation, we're talking equal rights and safety for mutants?

So, yes, we want it.

From:

xp_echo

Equal rights and safety for mutants 100%. We’re on the same page there.

But to do that we’ve got to work out what limits we’re willing to live within.

You can’t say someone being scared that the crazy person has the power to turn out all lights forever with a good enough EMP is being unreasonable.

But that doesn’t mean they get to throw us in a box or make us live only where they tell us we can live.

Far as I remember the speech, Xavier’s dream was about finding the middle ground.

Edited Date: 2024-09-10 09:34 am (UTC)

From:

xp_madin

Except that the limit they want is that we don't exist in public at all.

How do you find middle ground with people who do not want mutants in the room at all? Who support mandatory inhibitor collars and criminalising all powers use or advocating for mutant interment camps? Because that's what they want.

You know people are working on prenatal testing to identify x genes so you can abort babies who carry possible mutations?

From:

xp_echo

Not all of them. Not even most of them.

Sure, social media is always going to show you the extremes. I eventually learnt that.

But for every anti-mutant bigot and self-hating mutant on there, you see the human parents of a kid who burnt their house down but they only want to make sure he can live a life without having to fear prosecution.

Big picture isn’t where I work. That’s for the people who can stand talking to arrogant idiots with their heads so far up their asses they’re never going to see daylight.

The only way we stop any of this is by working with humans because you and I both know it’s not going to be just mutants who make people change.

And that doesn’t mean hiding. Fuck hiding. But there’s a difference between making them feel safer and hiding what and who we are.

From:

xp_madin

Guess I misjudged you. I thought you cared about the systemic issues mutants face.

From:

xp_echo

Not sure how you got ‘I don’t care about systemic issues mutants face’ from ‘the system won’t change unless we get a majority on board’.

From:

xp_madin

Because that's literally what you said.

From:

xp_echo

Not from where I’m standing.

From:

xp_madin

Cool. Glad you like being a conservative and excusing the people who want to destroy us because some humans aren't bad etc etc.

From:

xp_echo

You’ve been here before.

I’ve not excused anything. I just see the reality of what needs doing.

We will get nowhere if we refuse to use every tool we have, that includes sympathetic humans.

You may not like that reality but that doesn’t make it any less real.