Polygon loves to find ways to get people outraged at them for clicks. It's a huge reach to claim mutants look like cleft lip people.
Wheee do we draw the line lmao.
Not all German soldiers were nazis
Not all Russians in MW2 are evil
Not all bandits in uncharted are bad
Boomers from L4D attack fat people
Smokers from L4D stigmatize smokers
None of your examples match here, they're all ridiculous.
Fact is, these conditions have been used as a template to conjure monstrous characters forever. They're almost never used in a positive light. That in itself is a problem that perpetuates people's view of actual, living people with genetic conditions.
To deny this is naive as hell.
The problem here is the frequency which these are used as a template to create monsters. That has a real world effect. Can't deny it.
So to write it off like you're doing is pretty ignorant.
Would be pretty damn cool to see a hero with a cleft lip palate at some point, and we can create monsters without using real world conditions as templates.
And while you might see this as stifling creativity somehow, removing that option of an actual condition that exists... we KNOW there is a huge imbalance with representation, so why add to it when you could easily imagine something else or even, as suggested, make a positive example with a hero character.
This isn't hard to see.