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Silver Age: Mutants were a broad metaphor for anything left of mainstream that people didn't understand and distrusted. You could argue there was a lot of cultural carry-over from the Holocaust.

Claremont Era: becoming a mutant was about changes in your body during adolescence and a bit more about personal acceptance and the anti-mutant stuff was more coded to be bigotry instead of mistrust.

90's Jim Lee era: Being a mutant means you wear pouches that seem to have no utility.

Morrison: What If Hogwarts revealed themselves to the world?

Krakoa: Segregationist power fantasy. Let live separate but we're obviously superior.

Modern: Now the Mutant allegory is fully internalized by readers perspective and they insist on a single specific definition instead of broad strokes. It's ALWAYS been about race...and nothing else. It's ALWAYS been about homosexuality...and nothing else.