It was a well known fact that Earth wasn’t especially fair to other species. Most people were, they were accepting and grateful of their non-human hero’s and didn’t mind they weren’t human. Or, not fully.

Whether they were cybernetic, alien, or meta, most people didn’t care.

Then, there was the other people.

The people who held rallies in the streets to ‘send aliens back to their own planets’. To force meta’s to wear power suppressing collars constantly.

It was disgusting.

And, of course, Lex happily funded the campaigns against aliens and metas, which just annoyed Clark more. The only reason Lex wasn’t also funding against cybernetic humans was because it was more science to study for him.

So, when the campaigns started reaching younger hero’s in other teams, the JL intervened. More or less inviting then to stay at the JLA HQ to avoid being attacked in their own homes.

…

Clark groaned, looking at a newspaper with narrowed eyes in the HQ’s cafeteria. It was one he had published in his civilian identity about another attack against a meta-human refuge centre. And it just annoyed him how little people cared about it anymore. Like it was just old news.

“Ugh…Luthor.”