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[xp_madin]

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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Comments

[xp_daredevil]

Here's the issue though, we can't agree that Healthcare is for everyone. It that disability accommodation is reasonable. That mental health should be destigmatized. To treat animals and children and the elderly and homeless or those escaping abuse with care. That the LBGTQIA+ community should have the rights as everyone else.

If we can't agree that our most vulnerable populations should be cared for and treated with respect and dignity, why would we think that they're going to do so about a population that is *not* vulnerable in their minds?

Mutants, like any minority group, should have equal rights, protections, access to accommodation and Healthcare and everything else. But we're struggling with what should be basics. That doesn't mean you stop working towards your goals, every step you take makes it one less step for those that come after you, but this is a marathon not a sprint. We have a long way to go before mutants can take what we should already have simply by being born.

[xp_madin]

You know, I don't like people who throw around big words and education as a way of shutting down marginalised voices.

[xp_daredevil]

I'm not. I'm working for the same goals as you. I just want to keep it realistic. We're likely not going to get a far as we'd like in our lifetimes, but that doesn't mean we stop working.

[xp_madin]

Are you literally saying "we're not perfect yet, so suffer in your jocks"?

[xp_daredevil]

absolutely not.