Yeah sure NOW (most) people think black and white people are just the same.
They fucking didn’t THEN though. That’s the fucking point.
I don’t even agree with the position that people don’t perceive black people to have dangerous powers that affect society. A big part of the fear about equality that those in power had was that it could rock the system too much leading to it being overturned. This goes for other marginalised groups also. Trans people and patriarchy being a pillar of capitalism for example they see as an existential threat to the system. That is comparable to a world ending superpower, from a certain perspective.
Just thought of another angle on this. “Sure MOST of them might not be dangerous but SOME of them are violent murderers, we can’t possibly give them equality or else something something something…”
Exactly the same thing applies to mutants.
And uhhh nothing changes whether they’re equal or not. They can do equal violence without equality. It doesn’t improve safety.
Yes precisely. They actively invent all kinds of superpowers that out-groups supposedly have that justify keeping them as out-groups because they’re dangerous. The depiction of them as literal actual world ending superpowers is quite fitting.
I could be a video essayist if I wasn’t so fucking lazy.
Yeah sure NOW (most) people think black and white people are just the same.
They fucking didn’t THEN though. That’s the fucking point.
I don’t even agree with the position that people don’t perceive black people to have dangerous powers that affect society. A big part of the fear about equality that those in power had was that it could rock the system too much leading to it being overturned. This goes for other marginalised groups also. Trans people and patriarchy being a pillar of capitalism for example they see as an existential threat to the system. That is comparable to a world ending superpower, from a certain perspective.
Shades of Hnery Ford funding country music and tap dancing to repress the influence of Black culture and the recent British crackdown on drill music.
Just thought of another angle on this. “Sure MOST of them might not be dangerous but SOME of them are violent murderers, we can’t possibly give them equality or else something something something…”
Exactly the same thing applies to mutants.
And uhhh nothing changes whether they’re equal or not. They can do equal violence without equality. It doesn’t improve safety.
My mind wanders back to “super predators”, a thing seriously said by people to justify a law
Yes precisely. They actively invent all kinds of superpowers that out-groups supposedly have that justify keeping them as out-groups because they’re dangerous. The depiction of them as literal actual world ending superpowers is quite fitting.
I could be a video essayist if I wasn’t so fucking lazy.
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