Astonishing X-Men #35

[flint_marko]

This is from Astonishing X-Men #35 by Warren Ellis and Phil Jimenez

Comments

[nezchan]

To be fair, it took a LONG time and a lot of dead mutants to get there. To just see the end result is to ignore a hell of a lot of their history.

[stig]

...And yet people don't often work that way. The end result is often how people are going to judge. We see the Christian church as a force for good despite the Spanish inquisition, history of anti-Semitism, constraint of the rights of women, poor people and non-Christians, etc. We see the economy of the West by its end result of bounteous prosperity, forgetting that that end result is due in a large part to centuries of slavery and colonialism. We see the telephone as a marvellous tool of communication and remain blissfully unaware of the patent battles over it that Elisha Grey had to suffer.

The point of the story is that even if the argument is put badly, it's still valid. If there's ugly or oppressed mutants out there, then...why aren't they being trained for the team?

[nezchan]

They have in the past.

And who's this "we" in the third sentence there?