"The X-men were always woke!" (assaults their own kind if they don't join them)
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The X-Men are lame. The whole thing started as some civil rights movement parallel. And in a world where people loved Spider-Man, Captain America, Fantastic Four and other people with powers, those same crowds hate the X-Men...for...also having powers. Because they were born that way instead of acquiring them? Who the fuck knows. It was a flimsy plot to begin with at least in-universe. I think that's the whole reason Civil War was even a thing to kind of retroactively fix a glaringly large plot hole in the marvel world.
And of course all the fears people had about them were completely validated when Magneto and Sinister and Apocalypse killed a bunch of people.
Stan Lee debunked that it was based on civil rights movement but that hasn’t stopped people from seeing what they want
Yeah. He mostly made the catch-all 'mutant' so he didn't have to craft so many origin stories. No time to make up a good backstory for a power, now you can just be born with it. Of course characters that caught on, got well fleshed-out backstories.