It doesn’t matter if you’re blind or not if you’re not going to bother to look. Most people simply don’t assess their media for underlying messages. They see Professor X as the good guy and Magneto as a bad guy, and don’t think any more about them. They don’t ask how or why they can be identified as the protagonist/antagonist, they just identify the general alignment and that’s it.
I think that’s it really. These people didn’t understand the metaphors at play as children, and lack the capacity to reflect on what they enjoyed as children and realize that they grew up to be the villains.
And, of course, there are plenty of bad faith actors who never watched or read X-Men in the first place and/or don’t care about the messages it tries to convey, and just want something to be outraged about for attention.
It doesn’t matter if you’re blind or not if you’re not going to bother to look. Most people simply don’t assess their media for underlying messages. They see Professor X as the good guy and Magneto as a bad guy, and don’t think any more about them. They don’t ask how or why they can be identified as the protagonist/antagonist, they just identify the general alignment and that’s it.
I think that’s it really. These people didn’t understand the metaphors at play as children, and lack the capacity to reflect on what they enjoyed as children and realize that they grew up to be the villains.
And, of course, there are plenty of bad faith actors who never watched or read X-Men in the first place and/or don’t care about the messages it tries to convey, and just want something to be outraged about for attention.