Glad someone sees it. Its an often misguided view of malcolm as well. Hell even the actors expose their ignorance of him.Fassbender admitted he never studied any of malcolm's videos
href.li
Not to mention magneto was pretty much a supremacist especially at the beginning of his,tenure. Clemonts magneto is the more sympathetic one we know. Stan lee and Grant Morrison's one was less so. In his VERY FIRST appearance he takes over the govt missiles to do irreparable damage
Hell claremont who imo is the definitive magneto writer admitted he distanced them from the malcolm x comparison
The secret to 'X-Men's' success
Mags took over genosha to make a safe haven but also subjugated humans
In fact malcolm x is much closer to prof x.
''doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time, I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don't call it violence when it's self-defense, I call it intelligence."
I dont get the magneto thing except white people's odd duality with him and martin as if malcolm isn't a complex character. Even then Xavier made a,bunch of kids paramilitary.
Maybe they played satire on white folks irrational fear of black people and used it through the lense of mutants and magneto with them being living weapons so there is that. But that part never sat right with me. And considering yesterday is the anniversary of the church bombing where black girls were killed and 400 black folks were in harms way because of some crazy white dude thats a fukking riot.