"it's be nice to think the world would come to accept mutants but let's face it we still have yet to fully accept black people, middle easterns, gays, little people, asians, and pretty muc everything other than white, straight Republicans, and non-white reality tv stars  so.......no, I don't think it's practical or believable to have the world accept mutants yet "

you beat me to it, I was gona right a blog post about this. You are totally right it dose not make any sense any more, sure there is some mutants to be afraid of but its just the same with the non-mutant metahumans and for all the public know some of there most beloved superhero's could be mutants.

" it's be nice to think the world would come to accept mutants but let's face it we still have yet to fully accept black people, middle easterns, gays, little people, asians, and pretty much everything other than white, straight Republicans, and slutty, non-white reality tv stars  so.......no, I don't think it's practical or believable to have the world accept mutants yet "

" it's be nice to think the world would come to accept mutants but let's face it we still have yet to fully accept black people, middle easterns, gays, little people, asians, and pretty much everything other than white, straight Republicans, and slutty, non-white reality tv stars  so.......no, I don't think it's practical or believable to have the world accept mutants yet "

"it's be nice to think the world would come to accept mutants but let's face it we still have yet to fully accept black people, middle easterns, gays, little people, asians, and pretty much everything other than white, straight Republicans, and slutty, non-white reality tv stars  so.......no, I don't think it's practical or believable to have the world accept mutants yet "

NEVER KILL ALL HOMO SUPERIOR!

" @JonesDeini:   the xmen are kinda racists themselves.  they dont assimilate, they just make their own team with practically no non-mutant members (i know there is danger and a couple others, but im saying for the most part).  also, when the avengers decide to stick around and fight for justice in dark reign, the x-men go on their own island and sit it out.  in fact, the new mutants were partying in vegas during siege and they knew it was happening.   also if they want to show that they are the protectors of good having folks like magneto on their team sends a bad message. "

We can't even get past sexism, racism, and homophobia in the real world...no way mutants would get a free pass.

" We can't even get past sexism, racism, and homophobia in the real world...no way mutants would get a free pass. "

" it's be nice to think the world would come to accept mutants but let's face it we still have yet to fully accept black people, middle easterns, gays, little people, asians, and pretty much everything other than white, straight Republicans, and slutty, non-white reality tv stars  so.......no, I don't think it's practical or believable to have the world accept mutants yet "

I understand why humanity hates mutants. It's not like they are just some other race of people or minority group, they are the species that is going to undoubtedly take the place of humans. Humans in MU are literally watching themselves become extinct and the only way they can strike back is to wipe out their replacements. I'm not saying I as an outside viewer agree but I can't help but feel that if I were a human in the MU I would hate mutants just as much as the next guy. The most potent forms of hatred are born of fear. Also while to us it has been like 50 years that the earth has been acquainted with the mutant kind, in Marvel time it has been like 10 or 15 years. It will be a long time before the human race as a whole or even the majority of it will be able to accept that they are a dying breed.

" @riri4life:   
 True, that's what attracts most of us to reading X-Men, everybody knows what it's like to be different. I could always relate to them as a young black man living in a predominantly white, racist, small, mid-western town. 
@Violet-Eyed Dragon:   LOL trueche, my man, truesay. They DID lose A LOT of students post M-Day. But not solely due to them being bad leaders/guardians imo. d  As far as Siege goes, that whole event had problems up and down. But to your point, many heroes REALLY took a significant stand against Osborn during Dark Reign and further more showed up in Oklahoma to fight him publicly? I'm pretty sure I saw the Fantastic Four watching Norman get unmasked just like everybody else. And as an X-Men reader I'm glad they weren't  involved too heavily in Dark Reign/Siege. Tying into those events bogged down A LOT of enjoyable titles. X-Men books have always had the bad luck of arcs being interrupted by company wide events that must for some reason always include the X-Men (no matter how pointless their inclusion would be). So I for one am glad they chose to watch the situation and react when it was brought to them.   And how did they cause M-Day, Because I'm pretty sure Wanda's breakdown as a result of her loss children caused M-Day, folk.     "

I think its hate that stems from jealousy, not fear of mutants, but the fact that mutants are born with their gifts and that they call themselves "Homo Superior". I think the majority of people would object to that idea. "Mutants aren't superior to Homo Sapiens, they're just freaks of nature!" From the point-of-view of the normal human being, I could totally relate to that.

It should be future where hatred of the mutants is more subtle. Just like racisim it takes great effort and sacrifice but even than sadly it still can be found. After Mutant stop the hatred later becomes the fight of being exploited.      Dave Chapel pointed it out it most likely be the same with mutants.    

Move past? Maybe, i think it needs to adapt and evolve to stay as poignant as ever, and as relatable to the times as ever, and as others have mentioned, maybe this means more subtlety in some era's, maybe it means speaking louder than ever before in others. Depends on the writer and how good they are, and what he can use as material to write on.  
 
Write now, X-Books, lacks diversity for me, relatively more so than any other time I can think of, barring the original team. Writers and editors expressing at one point a few years back, that Xavier and Magneto need to step down, for Scott to step up, and encompass both of their goals, but eh, you don't need characters to step down, for others to step up, and Xavier and Magneto are damn good characters with an important dynamic quality about them, which speaks directly about mutant hatred, which speaks directly about racism, homophobia, sexism, and etc, and thats, Am I, being to aggressive, or am I being too passive in my approach? Are we, being to aggressive, or are we being too passive in our approach. Am I, or we doing enough, flip side are we hurting our own cause?  
 
They replace that with one revered leader who everyone listens to all of a sudden, to go live on an island as one big minority? I don't like Forge and Banshee are dead as well, more to do with their age than the spice and diversity they bring by being of a smaller represented nationality, ethnicity. Of course there are two layer's here, the stories available because of approaching the top to how ordinary 616 humans of Earth approach mutants, and what writers write and readers expect. I'd like to think that the humans written in Marvel Universe are dumbed down to make the plight of our heroes that much more admirable, and I do think that, people in real life are accepting of people with different names, and genders, and preferred hand use, and so on, its a small step for more of everyone, to be the same way with skin color, sexual preference, but then again....

Personally, I think the fear comes from the danger of it all.  In regards to normal metahumans like Spider-Man, it usually takes a relatively controlled incident in order to transform them.  On the otherhand, for mutants, it's random.  The guy who's helping you fix your car could suddenly spurt mutant powers which are wildly out of control and pretty much kill you and everyone around you in a matter of seconds.  Now if you take someone like Ms. Marvel, the acquisition of her powers was a bit more deliberate than the average mutant, and thus she had more control over them from the get go.  Now, of course this isn't the norm if you take in consideration characters like Electro or whatnot, but then you have to realize that the likelihood of some freak accident giving someone electric powers are slim in comparison to the likelihood of the people around you possessing a gene that could give them an unknown ability that may or may not instantly kill or maim the public.
 
That's where the fear comes from.  And then the fact that the population had a massive spurt also fed into this fear.

Well technically the world still haven't moved past racism or homophobia, so it does make since for the Marvel U to still have an undertone of mutant hatred.    

Also probably worth mentioning again that peoples prejudices towards such broad and large groups of people, that include, ethnicity and gender, often are underscored by a large lack of logic. Racist, sexist, bigoted people will use every excuse in the book to justify their hate, and justify their lack of hate when it suits them. They see someone of a color they do not like, commit a murder, and that person is a typical sum of the earth, crook and criminal, who comes from a family of crooks who are a drain on society. They see someone the same color as them, the color they like, commit a murder, and it was 'self defense', a one in a one thousand incident, does not reflect the larger community.  
 
Sometimes people aren't 'hard' racists or sexists either, they are just bigoted in their nature, since I know some racists that distinguish race by class, and make exceptions for people of different skin color, that act like the skin color they think is superior. Similarly they are racist towards traits. If a person whose ethnicity they dismiss is actually an athlete on a team they like, and etc, is I am sure that characters in Marvel, can have similar fears and ways to justify hatred opposing support. 

You pretty much nailed the logic errors I have with the whole anti-mutant feeling. Regular supes are fine but not mutants. And actually mutants are fine if they hang with regular supes. The most obvious case is the Beast. When he was more human looking in the early days of X-Men and X-Factor, he was one of the dreaded muties. But the more inhuman blue furry Beast in the Avengers had no such problems. And really, in the real world, any group that isolates itself and secretly trains children to become paramilitary soldiers is gonna inspire some uneasy feelings that just can't be written off as prejudice. 

" @Violet-Eyed Dragon:  Dig but blaming the mutants for forming Nation X or Utopia is like blaming the Jewish people for forming the nation of Israel after the holocaust if you follow me. And they've tried building that bridge from day one. They have and continue to take on threats to the people of earth both of mutant and non mutant origin just as much as any other group in the Marvel U. So to me, so what if they sat the last two big marvel events out? To me that was good cuz it gave X-Men titles time to develop they're own stories. They've saved San Francisco on a regular basis since Manifest Destiny and continued to protect the city throughout Dark Reign. They even protected the people of  San Francisco during Second Coming. Also if they had opposed Osborn prior to Siege it would put the already dwindling mutant population at risk and risk combat spilling out onto San Francisco, endangering civilians. Worse yet with Norman's manipulation of the media and firm public support behind him at the time it would've made mutant kind seem like the threat everybody generally perceives them as. Also let' say that a battle the level of Siege had taken place on Utopia (Over kill isn't in Osborn's vocabulary) and some part of the island had been damaged and affected Atlantis, possibly taking lives. That would've had the potential to cause a full on battle between land and sea, man. And the mutant kind always has representatives in the field to represent them to the public.  Wolverine is an oft active avenger who was present at Broxton and a known mutant/X-men in the public eye. And Scott maintains open communication with Tony/Reed/Cap/Etc. this has been shown time and time again in the past 2/3 years of X-men books. At the end of the day you may not like all the actions that Scott/the X-men have taken, but can you deny the necessity of them?  As far as being afraid of mutants goes, I'd be just no more afraid of Magneto than I'd be afraid of Tony Stark. Shit, I'd be more afraid of Tony Stark since I know that at least somebody's watching and fighting Magneto. Yeah, I'd be a paranoid Max Lord type lol "

In Heroic Age: X-Men, Steve Rogers says,  
 

I don't think it has anything to do with their powers. Yes they fear the mutants powers but it's mainly because these people don't see the X-Men as humans. The Avengers are humans who happen to have powers or some sort of item. Mutants on the other hand are an entirely new species that, in the days with thousands of mutants alive, regular humans deemed as a threat. They thought that the mutants were going to kill all the humans to become the dominant species. So it has nothing to do with their powers but everything to do with the fact that they aren't really human.

" I don't think it has anything to do with their powers. Yes they fear the mutants powers but it's mainly because these people don't see the X-Men as humans. The Avengers are humans who happen to have powers or some sort of item. Mutants on the other hand are an entirely new species that, in the days with thousands of mutants alive, regular humans deemed as a threat. They thought that the mutants were going to kill all the humans to become the dominant species. So it has nothing to do with their powers but everything to do with the fact that they aren't really human. "

" it's be nice to think the world would come to accept mutants but let's face it we still have yet to fully accept black people, middle easterns, gays, little people, asians, and pretty much everything other than white, straight Republicans, and slutty, non-white reality tv stars  so.......no, I don't think it's practical or believable to have the world accept mutants yet "

" Little kid: mommy look its spiderman! spiderman can i shake your hand!?, wait who's that? (looks at wolverine) OMG ITS A MUTANT!! Spiderman: hey kid what do you think i am?  Wolverine: I'm gonna shave that little punk's hair (angerly grins) Little kid: "runs away screaming mutants are bad"    alot of hte marvel public are hypcriticly rascist :P. "

And how did they cause M-Day, Because I'm pretty sure Wanda's breakdown as a result of her loss children caused M-Day, folk.     "

 @JonesDeini: HOW DO PEOPLE IN MARVEL TREAT ALIENS? WORSE RIGHT?