Actually...

More X-Men: First Class meta: short and to the point, and long and poignant. Other than these being great posts, I admittedly link them because, like me, their authors don't seem to be on the "Erik was/is right about everything" side of things.

Slight detour: a hero's lot is not an easy one. If they're characterised without flaws, they're deemed boring. If they're characterised with flaws, as, say, Charles Xavier is in this film, they're often declared hypocrites/ineffectual/tools and their flaws are seen as unforgivable, whereas flaws in antiheroes of course are what makes them interesting/more dimensional/human (and then a part of fandom proceeds to dryclean them of any of those flaws, faults and ambiguities, but that's another matter. One thing I love about the Marvelverse at its best is that they do make an effort to show the sympathetic sides and credible motivations of their darker characters and the flaws of their heroes, and so I find it frustrating to read responses which default into black and whiteness again, just with reversed roles.

Some thoughts of my own, previously expressed in comments to other posts:

( Spoilery for the film )