[Zhongyingmei] At the end of time

Hi, I'm Luna Howlett.

I am a mutant.

Of course I think you all know this, and now there are people who know more about my past than I do.

However, I still want to say this sentence in such a public video: "I am a mutant."

I'm not proud of it, I'm not ashamed of it, I just accept it.

Although the scientific community has not yet concluded whether the X gene is inherited, there is one thing that I think is certain: it is the X gene that chooses us, rather than us actively choosing it.

I was born that way, so I accept it as I accept my brown hair and eyes.

I was not like this.

The so-called past that Hawick puts on social media is true and false. For example, he said that I used to work for the anti-government terrorist organization HYDRA, which is completely nonsense.I did live in the Hydra base for a while, but that was when I was caught doing experiments, because Hydra coveted my abilities, and I never - actively or passively - worked for Hydra did anything.

But one thing he said was true. When I was eight years old, my ability exploded for the first time. I did kill 56 people.

I will not make any excuses for this matter, and I am willing to accept all legal penalties for this.

At that time, I was deeply ashamed of being a mutant, and the person who changed my mind was Professor X.I was fortunate enough to have been taught by him, and I dare not say how much I have learned from the professor's spirit.

I think most people know the Professor from the X-Men comics, but the comics are not enough to show him a [-]th of greatness.He is my eternal spiritual leader and mentor. If anyone in this world has suffered like him, he will know how difficult it is to maintain trust and love for human beings after so many things.

Although I don't completely agree with all of his points.

When people distinguish mutants, they are used to dividing mutants into two factions, one is the moderate faction led by Professor X, and the X-Men is under its command, and the other is the radical faction led by Magneto, and its subordinate is the Brotherhood.

I've been asked which faction I'm from when other people know I'm a mutant, like it's an either-or choice.

However, in fact, most of the mutants have never seen Professor X and Magneto in their lifetime, they are stumbling and groping under the influence of the trend of the times.

If I have to belong to one faction, then I belong to the vast majority of ordinary mutants, those who are not capable enough to shake the country, mutants who exist as a base but have never given up kindness and hope, not the X-Men or the Brotherhood, just Mutant.

When I was imprisoned by Hoyko, I often thought about the origin of all this in a long silence: Why do people hate mutants?

Let's take an example, would you hate your neighbor if he had six fingers on each hand?

I think most of you don't, and you might kindly pretend that he's no different, and even offer to help him with things that are inconvenient for him because of six fingers.

However, there is virtually no difference between Sixfingers and mutants - they are all different due to special genes.So why do people treat these two types of people so differently?

Not just six-fingered people, there are some people who are gifted but not the X gene mutation, they may be extra soft, or they may be particularly good at diving, they may be other gene mutations instead of the X gene mutation, never seen anyone say they are not Humanity.

So are people just unhappy with that little X gene?Why are people who only have X gene mutations called mutants and are discriminated against in society, while people with other gene mutations can live a normal life and even live a better life because of their small differences?

For example, the hDEC2 gene mutation can make people feel energetic even if they sleep only 4 hours a day-sounds like a must-have gene mutation for politicians and journalists, while the ACTN3 gene mutation controls the rapid tensing and contraction of muscles involved in sprinting. ——reminiscent of those talented Olympic sprinters in history.

What is the difference between these mutations and the mutants I have come into contact with, so that these genetic mutants can become politicians or sprint champions, while the X-gene mutants can only be blood tested, registered, and rejected?

The reason I first thought of was the uncontrollability of abilities.

This is an unavoidable topic. Since the group of mutants appeared in the media, there have been countless news reports that the first burst of abilities of mutants will cause some harm, some destroying public property, and some causing casualties.

There's really no denying that, and the fact that mutants inflicted these casualties involuntarily - that's the scariest bit.

If they were consensual, then this is an undisputed crime, yet these underage mutant children are involuntary, so how do we deal with the consequences of these injuries?Forgive them?Obviously not, those innocent people who have been implicated will not get justice.

So if it has the ability to explode and cause death, it will be dealt with as the crime of intentional homicide, manslaughter or intentional destruction of public property?I'm afraid it's not appropriate, because it seems that the juvenile detention center will be filled with small mutants, which is not a long-term solution after all.

It sounds like things will inevitably go to what Hawick advocated: let the child receive genetic testing at birth, and if it is detected that they carry the X gene, they can 'voluntarily' choose whether to inject a drug that suppresses the X gene. If you choose not to inject, you must always be monitored by the Department of Mutant Affairs.

Even if let's ignore that the potion developed by Hawick and the others actually shortens the lifespan of mutants, even assuming that the potion is perfectly usable, is such a policy acceptable?

This sounds like no harm to the majority of people who do not carry the X gene, but the segregation and registration system for blacks 100 years ago did no harm to whites either.

Why are those policies gradually abolished in the long struggle?

As a human being, no one has the right to position and exclude others in this way.

There was a crude classification of mutants in the X-Men comics, and it's the same classification used in mutants today.

The mutants are divided into five levels, namely Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon.

Simply put, these five types of mutants correspond to:

Alpha class: have the appearance of normal people and powerful abilities, the number of people is very rare

Beta class: powerful but flawed, few in number

Gamma level: powerful but has life obstacles, and does not have a very human appearance

Delta class: The appearance of ordinary people, weak and controllable, the vast majority of mutants are Delta class

Epsilon class: weak and flawed, and not very human appearance

You have heard in the news that most of the mutants who cause damage when their abilities are awakened are beta-level mutants, but the real majority of mutants are delta-level mutants, and they will not have it when their abilities erupt for the first time. What a big move, it is harmless to people. Most of the mutants I interviewed in the past are Delta-level mutants.

I never thought that one day I would say these words.

I didn't expect things to get to this point, I was like saying: most mutants are 'safe', please give us some space to survive.

I didn't expect that the word 'safety' would one day be used to describe humans.

I didn't expect that as a human being, my living space would be so reduced that I couldn't get it even if I had to beg for it.

Black registration and segregate-but-equal policies were considered laughable decades ago.Decades have passed, people are clamoring for equality every day, and women's rights and LGBT are being promoted in universities every day, but people agree with Hawick's policies so easily.

It's so unequal that people never seem to think about equality between mutants and the vast majority of non-mutants.

Another reason I can think of is the power of some mutants.

People often see uncontrollable power as a danger.

There are indeed some alpha or beta-level mutants who have the ability to destroy a city with a wave of their hands, so people think that these people cannot be left in the world, they must be locked in a laboratory for anatomical research or used by the government to join the enemy country Only in war.

May I ask, when you think this way, do you regard mutants as human beings with their own minds, or do you just regard mutants as a weapon or something?

Are mutants human? Are people with trisomy 21 human?Are people with so many genetic mutations human?

After living as a human for 8 years, just because of the awakening of a small gene, my life for the first [-] years is meaningless, am I not human?

For most mutants, they have as many consequences as they have talents that you think are different from ordinary people.

I hope everyone knows that the X gene is a probabilistic mutation. That is to say, you who are watching this video, your daughter or son, your neighbor’s child, your nephew and niece, may suddenly awaken their abilities one day and become Mutants you once voted to legislate to keep them quarantined.

Would you regret that you ever voted for the so-called 'separate but equal'?Do you think that you were childish when you threw eggs at the mutants walking around?

Or, would you wish that you could say one more word before it was too late, instead of sitting in front of the computer indifferently thinking that all this has nothing to do with you?

While people are celebrating Hawick's 'separate but equal' policy, and while there are still people who think 'other people must be different', some people have actually taken action.

Stark's research department is researching medicines that can treat mutants who cannot take care of themselves because of mutant abilities, and more and more people have stood up to speak out for the rights of mutants.

I once interviewed Ms. White who was troubled by domestic violence. She founded the anti-mutant domestic violence organization to provide legal support for mutants who suffered domestic violence.

You see, we confront those problems, we try to solve them, we don't want to run away from them.

I have no intention of portraying mutants as a vulnerable group. They have never been vulnerable, nor are they strong. They are just a group of human beings with the same genes.

Of course, among the mutants, there are criminals, thieves and robbers, but most of them are teachers, lawyers, and ordinary people doing ordinary jobs.

What mutants hope for is never any special treatment. What we hope is equality. Mutants and non-mutants will eventually merge into one, just like water dissolves in water.

In the past, only white people could walk on the streets of the United States with their heads held high. Later, white people, yellow people, and black people could walk freely on the streets without any discrimination.

I hope that one day in the future, not only whites, yellows and blacks, but also blue-skinned people, green-skinned people, and people with wings can freely enjoy the sun on the street without being discriminated against.

In 1896, the U.S. Federal Supreme Court established the legality of adopting "separate but equal" measures for blacks. After 58 years of struggle, it was not until 1954 that the Federal Supreme Court overturned this concept, and a series of African-American people The rights movement has just begun.

After the Stone Wall Movement in 1969, LGBT groups began to really fight for their rights, and it was not until 2015 that same-sex marriage in the United States began to gradually become legal.

I know that seeking equality is a long process, and I am willing to spend my whole life fighting for it, but I still hope that we can avoid some detours, such as rejecting Hawick, which almost completely copied the policy on blacks back then The 'Segregation and Equality' Act.

I am a mutant, and I am not afraid to say this in any public media, and I also believe that there will be a day in the future when every mutant can accept their own identity.

Let's hope that the freedom that mutants finally achieve is worth the suffering we have endured.