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Hong Kong Cavalier

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Thu Jun-01-06 12:51 PM
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1. I've always enjoyed the X-Men as an allegory to bigotry.

While it can be very heavy-handed, the underlying story of the X-Men and their (neverending) fight against bigorty
is what brought me in to read it when i was younger.

I think Stan Lee said it was originally an allegorical statement on racism, but that's just one (very prominent) layer of bigotry
that I think is still pervasive in this country.

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-The ‘X-Men’ come out	Cannikin	Jun-01-06 12:44 PM	#0
- I've always enjoyed the X-Men as an allegory to bigotry.	Hong Kong Cavalier	Jun-01-06 12:51 PM	#1
- I have a lot of reading to do. I've never read an Xmen comic...	Cannikin	Jun-01-06 03:44 PM	#2
- The best stories (in my opinion) are when the X-Men are fighting Magneto	Hong Kong Cavalier	Jun-01-06 11:02 PM	#3
- Total metaphor for homosexuality.	Placebo	Jun-01-06 11:09 PM	#4

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