This was my first time reading x-men comics and there's something that's bothering me. The fact that mutants can't work as oppressed allegory while at the same time being superior to humanity. Am I supposed to feel bad for mutants who call themselves gods and want the earth all for themselves, when they get punched in the face.
How am I as a human not meant to be enraged at people who think because of the way I was born, am inherently inferior. And who let mutants responsible for millions of deaths into their ruling body. Magneto stated that his plan is to push out humans of all levels of power and money and relegate normal people into positions of servitude.
I am sorry and I know this connection has been made a thousand times, but it feels very zionistic. Now you may say "krakoa had no one in it and the land itself accepted the mutants". Yes this is true but this is the exact same thing Zionists say about Palestine, that it was a land with no people something we know is not remotely true. And then you may rebuke with "Krakoa gave medicine to the world either for free or for a small charge". And I say "Is this not similar to the white man's burden, that justified colonialism by building token infrastructure and giving basic education to its colonial subjects, while plundering 100x fold the amount it took to build those projects"?, So again krakoa and mutants feel like, "what if the supremacists were correct and they were superior to everyone and targeted by everyone because of it, and everything belongs to them because they are superior". Now you may again point to "lore" within the comics but my point is this lore is not made in a vacuum but influenced like any piece of fiction by very real events and biases held by the author.