It's because the existence of Omega level mutants, and similarly powerful mutants (even in small capacity). The power-scaling of mutants is so all over the place, not to mention how many times mutants lose control of their powers. Remember the time a kid's mutant power to automatically destroy things at the cellular level kicked in and he accidentally killed an entire town before the X-men sent Wolverine to kill him. Normal humans cannot live in a society were their next door neighbor can sneeze and take the city block out on accident. Thats why the only working solution to the mutant issue in the comics has been literal segregation. For as much as the rhetoric of "Mutants-Are-Humans-Too" is spouted, functionally they are not. This is the problem with "Nonhumans as an allegory for discrimination" in fiction, it fundamentally contradicts itself unless the nonhumans in question have a close power scale to the humans. A prime case where this trope actually works is Disney's Gargoyles.
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Legacy
You know what, I’ll bite.
X-Men were always woke. So why is it that mutants and humanity never found any common ground yet? If this is supposedly the ideologies that promise equality and bringing people together in the supposed utopia, why haven’t they gotten along yet and prefer to keep segregating themselves and living in constant oppression?
Could it be that a certain belief is overshadowing genuine unity and kinship? Could it be that certain beliefs write off humanity as inherently unforgiving because of something they weren’t born for yet are being demanded reparations for? Maybe it has to do with certain mutants involved who would rather perpetuate conflict for their self-interests? Perhaps because the writers involved, who have those same interests, project them into the stories as such so they can rewrite rationality, making the opposing group irrational savages for what they believe?
No, it must be because you’re racist.
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