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UnfairRepresent posted...

The context of the conversation was that it doesn't work as an allegory to real world oppressed groups when the group in the fiction has the ability to end all life on the planet within seconds

No, literally the Marvel writers have stated what it represents. Of course it's not going to be exactly 1:1 representation when in that would there are aliens, super people, gods, multidimensional creatures, etc. it's fiction.

Also, "the group" doesn't have the ability to end all life. Individuals within that group do. There is a difference that's being ignored there. Justifying hating and discriminating against an entire race of people because potentially one might be dangerous.

No one is saying not to take precautions, it that the threat isn't real. They're saying that the treatment of all mutants as if they're subhuman and dangerous is unfair. The same way it's unfair to treat minorities and marginalized people like that irl. There are certainly dangerous people among them, but we can't treat them all badly because of that. Look at ISIS, should we be ok discriminating and hating middle eastern people because of ISIS, even when those people have absolutely no connection to them?