The new episode is another banger!
The new sentinels (if bastion is to be believed) represent more than just a threat, they are a symbol.
This isn’t just some crazy villain doing some evil scheme…this is regular people. Fathers and mothers (as we saw in one scene), reporters and just regular people. People that are not just afraid of mutants but afraid of what they represent….irrelevancy. So afraid they are willing to go extremes to change things. While it’s possible they didn’t understand the extent of what they were signing on for, they clearly knew it was a radical body altering procedure.
At the end of the day, Charles might succeed in getting people to stop hating mutants. But he’s never going to be able to look at a mother and tell her “your child has no place in this new world”. Because that is what cable noted, mutations start to take off, and in a few generations will dominate the population. That irrelevancy will drive violence and extreme action. Considering the concerns of our current world with AI and the possibility of a large shift in jobs, it’s something that can be keenly felt in our zeitgeist