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Sansoldier posted...

It does sound kind of ridiculous, but people do talk like that, especially related to affirmative action and welfare.

That's situational. On the subject of welfare and affirmative action, people opposed to these things can play the victim in a "Why do I have to work hard so that they can get a free pass?" kind of way. When it comes to who has it worse in a general sense, invalidation of individual hardship and equalization is the best they can hope for. "Life is difficult for everyone."

The majority saying that they have it worse is such a blatant Fire is Cold lie that there's no real way to propose such an argument -- except in the context of it being harder to be the majority because everyone unfairly hates the majority. If that guy was babbling on about how X-Men hated humans and thought they were superior, then he could play that card. But for him to throw out a blanket statement about humans having it harder when everything else feels valid, it's like explaining the underscore of the statement to the audience.

X-Men '97, I presume, is for adults who remember the 90s cartoon. I'm sure there are children watching too. But I don't think that they need the bad guy to say such an on-the-nose remark in the midst of what otherwise feels like a legitimate tirade that a bigot would go on.