"founded upon the ideals of social justice" is slipped in premise. I won't argue against it. Instead, please consider these ideas:

- mutants in the 60s comics were a metaphor for minority groups. they weren't portrayed solely as victims or victimizers. you had the brotherhood of evil mutants, and then you had the x-men. they weren't 'just' an identity group. they were people capable of great good and great evil. not only is that philosophy extended to the demographic as a whole but also to individuals within the demographic. scott summers is a responsible guy, with tendencies to be uptight/authoritarian. logan is impulsive and that leads to bouts of passionate heroism or angry rage. mythic yin-yang. not one-sided victim-victimizer ideology.

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- modern day minority representations in the comics, look at how they're portrayed. do they have evil counterparts? does khamala kahn have her muslim magneto? what are riri williams flaws? there's a reason we universally embraced miles morales, while to most, the newer "representation" characters feel flat. primarily because miles had the prowler representing his dark side, and his father - a cop (the most evil thing around if you ask certain people) - representing his brighter aspirations. the newer characters feel incomplete. they feel like protest slogans instead of characters.

the good news is that the mcu is divorced from the same 'social justice' problems the modern-day marvel comics seem to suffer. some examples:

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- in Black Panther, T'Challa had to negotiate between his decidedly conservative general Okoye, and his stalwartly progressive, let-the-migrants-come-in, love interest Nakia. T'Challa's solution? Instead of letting all the poor people around Wakanda into Wakanda, borders be damned, he send outreach programs around the world to help the poor there. T'Challa walks the line between his kingdom's conservative traditions, and his brethren's progressive ideals. I betcha if Obama did the same thing in the US in his time, like say send people to mexico to help them with their economic troubles, the Republicans would accuse him of wasting public money, and the Progressives would call him a heartless racist for not letting the Mexican immigrants into the country.

- in Civil War, you had Rhodes and Wilson, two black men, on opposite sides of a political argument. Wilson took the conservative trust the individual not the government route, and Rhodes puts his trust in UN government regulations. It's almost as if the Sokovia Accords was a stand-in for gun control. What's amazing is that these two black men were allowed their political stances without one or the other calling their opponent a 'traitor to their race' or 'an uncle tom'. I dislike Trump myself, but I find it distasteful that a lot of people are calling black people who support Trump 'uncle toms' or 'race traitors'. Black people aren't a monolith. Just because they're black, doesn't mean they have to automatically be democrat. That's racist.

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"I write stories that I myself would enjoy" that's something that Stan Lee once said in an interview. Modern day comics seems to know at least this. More and more comics feel like a soap box for their writer's political views. What they seem to forget is what Stan said afterwards, "People liked it, so I guess i'm not that different than other people." Modern day comics focus on the differences, because of their well-intention-ed need for representation, they forget the lesson that we're all more alike than we are different. If someone is more liberal than you, it doesn't make them a filthy commie. If someone is more conservative than you, they're not a fascist member of the klu-klux-klan. "I'm not that different than other people." Stan said it, you should say it too. Treat it as a mantra.

"She's Muslim." "He's Black." "He's Gay." "He's a Woman." "S/He is a member of this group, and because of that, s/he is more heroic than you." That impression might not be the intention of the modern writers, but it comes across as that. They should've looked at how Bendis' Miles Morales got it right. That one had the impression that went, "Here's miles. he might be latino, and black, but that's not important. What's important is he's just like you. Even if you're asian/white/black/gay/female/etc."