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Chapter 370! A few quick notes:

The flashback at the beginning isn't Spinner's; It's Shoji's.

To my understanding, the words thrown have religious/Shinto connotations: kegare 穢れ - with that specific kanji 穢 - means defilement, and imi 忌み is taboo/something to avoid. I think Heteromorphs aren't just discriminated against; they're seen as dirty/impure and abominations.

The 'blood' talk is especially unnerving.

"I can't believe you have tainted blood...You people tricked us!" So is this idea of deception.

The countryside sucks ass, apparently.

Quirk counseling doesn't work, probably because they don't actually teach acceptance, but instead are intended to assimilate children into strict societal norms and standards.

Both the PLF speech guy and Shoji have large visible scars on their faces, presumably from being assaulted violently.

Shoji only looks several years younger in his flashback - the assaults and hatred, they all probably happened in the past five years. Definitely not a thing of the past.

Gran Torino notes that Hero agencies pop up in places with dense populations. Countrysides probably have little to no Heroes. "The light does not shine on us" indeed.

Also: throwing rocks and hate speech doesn't require use of quirks. These bigots won't be classified as Villains. Heroes won't be after them.

The Heteromorphs who fight back using their body-which-are-their-quirk can definitely be classified as Villains tho.

Most of the manga have taken place in city areas; nearly all the history lessons we ever got about quirks and HeroAca World in the manga are from the villains - Heroes just don't seem to talk about history; Spinner was a hikikomori and Shoji was told not to leave his house; (this is from Vigilantes but) infrastructure don't accommodate for all body shapes/sizes/needs - this heteromorph stuff exploded because it was hidden and held back, out of sight, and just not dealt with for so long. No wonder there's so much rage.

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I've been rambling meta about heteromorph discrimination since 2019, even before My Villain Academia. So none of this was out of no where - the information was there in the manga, all one needed to do was look carefully and think. Everything could be extrapolated.

I was right, I am right, I'm always right. Heck yeah.

THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTINGGGG

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