The Truth is Out About Stan Lees Woke XMen and the Civil Rights Movement!

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It’s no secret that American Superhero comics are saturated with heavy handed politics. A practice that has driven many of their faithful readers away. However, the counterclaim is that comics have always been political and haven’t actually changed. It’s the legacy comics reader who’s changed.

But is this true?

Well, it’s often been the claim that Stan Lee’s X-Men was created to be an obvious allegory for the Civil Rights movement. Professor Xavier was secretly Martin Luther King Jr. while his nemesis, Magneto, was written as Malcom X. And the intention? According to legend, Stan Lee was a progressive pioneer and brave activist writer and masterfully weaved his progressive politics into his hard hitting superhero narratives – destroying the evil conservatives. And so, creating the X-Men to be a Civil Rights allegory was his way of teaching the evils of bigotry and preaching tolerance.

But is this legend true? Was Stan Lee even the progressive champion so many people claim? Who really steered the X-Men into the arena of hard hitting social issues? Was it Stan Lee or someone else entirely? And even then was still a Civil Rights allegory?

Today, the claim is Marvel’s current roster of stories hasn’t changed from where it is today. That it’s really their comic readers who have changed? Let’s do a deep dive and take a closer look. Has Stan Lee era Marvel truly shifted from it’s focus on fun stories to a focus on biased political swill? Or has it’s legacy fanbase simply gotten older and have now become villainous conservatives. Let’s check it out!

Chapters:
0:00:00 – Intro
0:00:29 – Comics Have Always Been Political?
0:03:42 – The Forging of Stan Lee’s X-Men?
0:04:02 – The Stan Lee Defense
0:04:36 – Captain America is a Social Justice Warrior?
0:07:26 – Political Bias in Modern Marvel Comics?
0:12:05 – Social Justice Writing in Practice
0:13:09 – Waifu Handbook Ad
0:15:02 – Social Justice Characters Aren’t Heroes
0:17:06 – The “Modern” Creator
0:18:00 – Dishonest Storytelling vs Honest Storytelling
0:20:11 – Social Justice Marvel in Action
0:36:11 – The Core Problem of Modern Comics
0:39:25 – Enter the X-Men!
0:40:53 – Professor Xavier’s REAL Goal
0:45:56 – Stan Lee’s Marvel Made Heroes Not Victims
0:47:22 – The Secret Genius Behind X-Men
0:51:29 – How to ACTUALLY “Write the World Outside Your Window”
0:53:53 – Stan Lee’s Universal Truths
0:57:59 – But the X-Men Were Still a Civil Rights Allegory Right?
1:00:03 – Where Does the Myth Come From?
1:05:38 – Stan Lee’s True Philosophy