Leftists would side with actual demons in fantasy
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It's amazing how wrong they are, while accusing others of being wrong.
Also...if that's the scene I think, where she beats the scales...are they saying enslaving someone for eternity is better than killing them in a fight? Interesting...
So they're pro-slavery and pro-demon. Can't say I'm surprised.
DOES it though? I thought it showed you time and again that, yes, demons are evil, even when they're pretending they're not. These people are so warped they can't see obvious interpretations of evil. Every time you meet a demon, they're up to some dastardly shit. Somehow this retard reads that as 'asking to question their morality.' No, they're showing their morality, over and over.
Yes. Survive...as predators. By using it to kill humans, and not get killed by them. You absolute retard.
Ah, the go to. "If you interpret anything I disagree with in this entertainment product, you're a retarded chud who just can't get that iT's a pArOdY, mocking your far-right fascism, you fascist!" A true classic. "X's are so dumb, they don't even get that this is clearly mocking X."
mEdIa lItErAcY!!!1
Also, an aside...I hate this "I'm to cool/lazy/communistic to capitalize anything" trend. Fuckers piss me off.
It's amazing how wrong they are despite Frieren spelling it out for the viewers. Demons are predators who eat humanoids. Demons need to eat humanoids to survive. Humanoids need to kill demons so they don't get eaten. Demons are quite literally wild animals. Morality doesn't even play a role in that relationship. It's just about survival.
For that matter, has anything spelled it out as clearly as Frieren? That world's demons might not be the most evil (in the malicious, sadistic sense) of any race, but they're one of the most irredeemable, and amoral races in a fantasy setting. They don't even really have emotions. It's not so much about them being bad, as them being completely inhuman, and completely opposed to, and a danger to, humans. Which amounts to the same thing, to us humans.
Honestly, I love that leftist jumped on the "it's racist to hate demons" train, especially when it was so explicitly spelled out why demons are, in fact, bad news.
It would be one thing if the Frieren writer had done the opposite, and said demons were misunderstood and were, in fact, redeemable...and Frieren still hated them. That could create an interesting moral dilemma, and we could argue about whether the protagonist's feelings were right or wrong. But, no, in that world it was made incredibly clear that demons are not to be bargained with, they're not to be empathized with...because there's nothing there to make a human connection with. And leftists still jumped on the demon train.
Really makes you think.
Which is one of the reasons I like Eight-Six: 86 so much. It is a more straightforward message about racism being wrong, but it also shows that both sides of the fight are wrong, and does so repeated.
The Alba's who are in charge of San Magnolia would rather see their entire nation fall and their people massacred before they would ever even conceive of admitting the 86 are even human, let alone worthy of rights. And at other points in the story, you see another nation fighting the Legion who doesnt have those issues and is in a much better position to be fighting the war with walkers that are actually worth a damn instead of the walking coffins the 86 pilot. And that very much fits in with what you would expect of a hamfisted anti-racism story in the West.
But the 86 are shown to be just as prejudiced, want to see the destruction of all of those "white pigs", and will gaslight themselves over any Alba who treats them well. Even the ones who fight for their rights or those who actually come to the field to fight and die alongside them. And of course, it extends to those who had lived among them, or their children, or those of mixed ancestry.
Can you name a single modern Western work that shows that the discriminated against minority is capable of being evil and that this is shown as a bad thing?