Why is Captain America such a dick every time he interacts with mutants? Not only the AvX stuff, but also when he meet X-23 blaming her for everything even though he didn’t blame Bucky for all the shit he did.

elanabrooklyn:

pornosophical:

waitingforthet:

I feel like a lot of the time Captain America is in X-Books, he’s there to fill a very particular authoritarian role and that role pretty much requires him to be a dick. It puts him out of character a lot of the time, which is unfortunate. Maybe he has some latent unreasonability superpower that is activated through proximity to mutants?

I mean let’s be real it’s about the most plausible excuse for someone as liberal and morally oriented as Steve Rogers fighting the mutant cause

Seriously! Thanks for making the point OP!

I always send folks to this by @racefortheironthrone  famous essay “Steve Rogers Isn’t Just Any Hero” 

Steve Rogers comes from the New York Left. While FDR’s New Deal may have be explicitly written to exclude Black people Steve Rogers has always stood against bigotry. 

Folks should def read Attewell’s follow up essays @graphicpolicy about Cap in his new series: A People’s History of the Marvel Universe. 

Here’s Cap fighting for equality and against authoritarianism. 

Here’s Cap fighting the %1 and wearing a dress (I wish someone wrote about Cap at Occupy Wall Street. He would have been awesome at keeping the police at bay.) 

I am summoned and I appear!

It’s canonical that Captain America doesn’t have any anti-mutant prejudice at all and never did: 

So says Magneto’s prejudice-erasing helmet. And so powerful is Captain America’s belief in the inherent equality of all that he retains this belief, even when he’s been mystically transformed into a Hyborian warrior:

To answer OP’s question: Cap is a dick when he interacts with mutants when the people writing him don’t know dick about Captain America.