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xp_journalI 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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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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Date: 2024-09-10 02:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-10 02:29 pm (UTC)If human society insists on limits, they can go first.
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Date: 2024-09-10 02:41 pm (UTC)Everyone should have limits and that includes non-mutants too.
Also, what do you mean hunted for sport?
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Date: 2024-09-10 02:56 pm (UTC)You talk as if this is a dialogue between two communities, but this is not what I have experienced. A true dialogue would require them to acknowledge us as something other than animals.
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Date: 2024-09-10 03:08 pm (UTC)And I'm very sorry to hear about your being hunted for sport. I'm glad that you and Liam are both home and alive.
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Date: 2024-09-10 03:13 pm (UTC)My limits are why I could not protect myself. I won't impose more for people who have proven they have none.
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Date: 2024-09-10 09:11 pm (UTC)Why should humans decide what the limits are?
In my experience, the limits aren't things like "follow the law", they're "you could be a danger. You can't come back to school." Or "as a mutant and a criminal, you're in home detention following the end of your sentence because you're inherently a danger that baseline humans aren't" or "remote detainment camps".
They don't want limits on just the big ticket mutants. They want mutant eradication and will try and slippery slope their way into it.
You're talking a good game for a man who doesn't even get to go to his church with his wings out.
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Date: 2024-09-11 02:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-11 02:51 am (UTC)It's important because it means that you're not willing to be authentically yourself at that church. Do they even know you're a mutant?
Come talk to me about limits when you're willing to make sure every person in your church knows that.
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Date: 2024-09-11 03:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-10 09:38 pm (UTC)I don't have Big Mutant Powers and I'm not visibly a mutant, I change my hair color and my face to look cute, so maybe I don't have much of a bone in this fight (even though eventually these things WOULD trickle down to people with "harmless" powers) but if being "better" than the hateful people means just standing by and letting them hurt others, then... is it worth it to be better? I'd rather take care of the people who need it.
And I agree! That learning control over destructive powers is a good thing. From what I've gathered that's kind of what this place does? Or did? That's great. People should learn so they don't have to worry about hurting themselves or others. But if we let the government control that, then what's the cost?
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Date: 2024-09-11 02:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-11 02:52 am (UTC)Can't trust the government on this. Mutants should be providing mutual aid.
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Date: 2024-09-11 03:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-11 02:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-11 03:14 am (UTC)