Did you time travel from the 90s

It's like that one Chinese curse, "May you live in weeks where decades happen"

It's going to blunt the Islamophobic response

You're more optimistic than I am. I fully expect the media will bury the tackler's identity and most minds that fact does manage to reach, it'll slide off like they're teflon.

If you base your opinions on what other people hallucinate

When I say "real world context" I mean the culture and history that shaped and continues to shape our existence, not what some fascist losers are saying online.

if you can't examine the work on its own terms then you're wasting your own time

No human being is capable of doing that because creative works don't spring from the ether and neither do we. If you think you can somehow partition your brain to engage with a work completely divorced of everything you've ever known and experienced of the material world, you're fooling yourself.

Have you considered that the chuds are mad about the Frieren memes and are coping in the dumbest ways possible?

Why would they get mad about the memes if they didn't like Frieren to begin with?

You're tailing the chuds and letting them dictate your opinions on a work of fiction

"Many people interpret this work in a fascist manner" is evidence for the claim "this work lends itself to a fascist interpretation."

If there's a real world racial allusion being made in that subplot

That was never my argument. I don't make assumptions about the creator's intent. My argument was that people's readings of stuff like the baby demon subplot are going to be informed by the real-world context in which they live. You can tell people all you want that they shouldn't use real-world cultural context to inform their readings of fiction, but you might as well command the tide to stop coming in for all the good it'll do you. I have already talked about the real-world context behind "these things look like you but they think only of destroying your race, even the children, kill them all," so I won't relitigate that.

It's the fact that separation can't be made that has already soured the series for many online chuds, who ironically (considering your argument) identify with the Demons more then they do with the Mrs. Freiren lmao

Then why in [CW: Nazi shit] the linked thread are the chuds posting pics of Frieren with captions like "the reason I look this cute is because I'm white" and editing the comic to replace the KKK member with bigoted caricatures of Jews, black people, and trans people?

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the theme of "appreances can be deceiving" of mythologies surrounding creatures like changelings

Unfun fact: the general consensus among anthropologists is that the changeling myth arose as a way for peasants to excuse killing their disabled and neurodiverse children.

Buddy if you think this is about me hating Japan, how do you reconcile that with me complaining about racial alignments in Dungeons and Dragons a week ago. I like Dungeons and Dragons but I freely admit that some aspects of it unfortunately radiate Hitler particles.

In any case "You think Japanese people are born fascist" is a gross strawman of the hopefully uncontroversial statement that Japan is a US puppet regime, and being a satellite of the Fourth Reich is liable to influence its culture in not-so-good directions

I'm not going to bother engaging with your vague, spurious accusations. Find someone else's time to waste.

I already find "race essentialism in fantasy media is a 1:1 with real life racism" to be tedious nerd shit when people are talking about orcs and goblins and shit

That's nice, I find fantasies of being able to righteously commit genocide tedious.

devils and demons and things which are conceptually linked with evil and the moment they're not they stop being 'demons' or 'devils'

Is communism evil?

[CW: Homophobia] Is homosexuality evil?

[CW: Misogyny] Is feminism evil?

It seems to me that a lot of demonic things are, in fact, objectively cool and good

How does that in any way address the comment it's replying to?

Correct, but carnists are allowed to make bad faith attacks against us nonetheless.

Also not sure why you think you have any business lecturing me about "the rules and spirit of the community" you joined less than a day ago.

modern

Ever heard of Amalek? The foundational document of Christianity explicitly endorses genocide.

Wow I can't believe that racists are latching onto the anime whose premise is "every single member of this race is inexorably evil and they must all be exterminated, yes, even the children, and anyone who shows sympathy for them is a sentimental fool"