[Nerfnow!!] Classic Fantasy vs Modern Fantasy
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Aka, Dungeons and Dragons and all things now woke.
Even a lot of anime is depicting demons and just another fantasy race whom are being persecuted by humans, mainly because of jealousy that they live longer and are innately better with magic. You know, just making them eleves.
In anime it would depend on what kind of demons they're referring to. In Shinto Yokai can be good, bad or indifferent and that word gets translated to demon in English pretty much all the time. So if they're basing the demon race on that concept then there can be nuance.
It gets really muddled when they also use the Catholic version of demons for the aesthetic like in Blue Exorcist, but use Shinto logic for their behavior.
even in western stuff, I'd say there's nuance. If there's a story, for instance, that uses the trope of the "misunderstood demons" to push DEI bullshit, yeah, i'd say steer clear. (99% percent of the time, that's what's going on today)
But if it's just somebody trying to tell an interesting story, then it might be okay.
Generally speaking, it depends on the thrust of the story in question; is this person trying to push an agenda, or are they trying to tell an interesting (if controversial) story?