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wishfulaces, who asked for an X-Men: First Class fic about Charles Xavier and privileged liberalism.
Title: Declarations
Fandom: X-Men: First Class
Characters: Charles, Erik
Rating: All ages
Warnings: None needed
Word count: 100
Summary: Daring to tell the truth.
"I'm a Jew," Erik says.
It's such a random announcement, coming from a shivering man whose wet hair drips onto a borrowed coat, that Charles almost laughs. But then, if Erik's faint accent is European, he probably had a bad time during the war.
"All right," Charles says gently. "I don't actually care, you know."
"Some of your best friends are Jews?"
"Well, yes, as it -"
Erik raises an eyebrow. Charles shuts up, as subject to Erik's mysterious force as the submarine was.
"No. Not really," Charles admits.
Erik nods, and Charles knows he has somehow earned something worth having.
wishfulaces, who asked for an X-Men: First Class fic about Charles Xavier and privileged liberalism.Title: Declarations
Fandom: X-Men: First Class
Characters: Charles, Erik
Rating: All ages
Warnings: None needed
Word count: 100
Summary: Daring to tell the truth.
"I'm a Jew," Erik says.
It's such a random announcement, coming from a shivering man whose wet hair drips onto a borrowed coat, that Charles almost laughs. But then, if Erik's faint accent is European, he probably had a bad time during the war.
"All right," Charles says gently. "I don't actually care, you know."
"Some of your best friends are Jews?"
"Well, yes, as it -"
Erik raises an eyebrow. Charles shuts up, as subject to Erik's mysterious force as the submarine was.
"No. Not really," Charles admits.
Erik nods, and Charles knows he has somehow earned something worth having.
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. . . yeah. I mean, seriously, how much historical ignorance do you have to have to treat as unimportant the fact that Erik was on the receiving end of racial persecution--active state-sponsored persecution and genocide--for the first thirteen years of his life? And anti-semitism didn't suddely end after the war, so I'm sure he experienced some in his later years too. Including once he arrived in the US--I imagine some of the CIA weren't delighted at the thought of working with a Jew.
Erik does have the ability to "pass," so yes he's got white-skin privilege post-1945, but even so.