re: #22 Athens Runaway

Bzzzt.

The dichotomy between Magneto and Prof. Charles Xavier was inspired by the dichotomy between Malcolm X and MLK. One feels that civil rights can not be achieved from inside the system and that violence is an answer (the bullet), the other feels that civil rights can be achieved from within (the ballot)

Interesting. I’d never heard that before.

Magneto’s position has always struck me as ambiguous, neither completely good nor completely evil. I’ve met a couple of people who were incarcerated in the concentration camps. Having lived through that once, what sort of reaction do you think they would have if faced with the prospect arising a second time? To me, it seems that a lot of the niceties of our civilized existence would easily be tossed aside if confronted with such a monstrosity.