I thought the whole thing about fentanyl being super-lethal was made up by cops?

I remember back when Trump was first becoming popular there was a lot of hope that he would fracture the party. It didn't happen. The entire right ended up rallying behind him, and I suspect the same will happen with whoever manages to win the next Republican primary after he's gone as long as they're sufficiently ghoulish.

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?

EDIT:

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

modern

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

most of the responses are forbidden by the Geneva convention

What a sentence.

I think it makes sense that "demons are inherently evil" becomes a loaded idea when you look at who tends to wield the "demon" accusation against whom. A hegemonic Christianity overwhelmingly accuses marginalized groups such as LGBT people, neurodiverse people, feminists, members of minority religions, and communists of being demons or possessed by demons or aligned with demons. That creates a basis for even something as seemingly tautological as "demons are always evil" to be read as right wing-coded.

I think people are huge nerds

Yeah, guilty

shit really ain't that deep bro

Every element of a fictional work is placed with intent. The baby demon subplot invites one to ask what that intent is, and that question invites a certain answer, as evidenced by the fact that a large number of people from across the political spectrum all independently arrived at that answer.

German aristocrats doing genocide and colonialism, that's their theme

Which gets muddled by the fact that their POV victim is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed woman with a German-sounding name. Who is it that always shouts about such people being victims of genocide by an ontologically evil outside race that superficially appears to share its culture but is only pretending to assimilate so it can destroy them?

to the point where some are convinced the demons are an allusion to marginalized people in the west

One of the work's most famous narrative arcs is about how the demons' evil is racially inherited and independent of material circumstances, and even their children are dangerous monsters that can only be exterminated. Is it really so surprising that someone would see that and think of Rassenkampf and "The only good Indian is a dead Indian," instead of the political project that reformed Puyi?

There's also this line, which... well, let me put it this way: if I were to read this as an pertaining to any real-world political movement, it definitely wouldn't be the bourgeoisie.

E: If anything, the logic of Frieren reminds me of the logic of "populist" anti-fascism, which accurately identifies and rails against the evils of capitalism but externalizes them onto an ontologically evil (generally racial, usually Jews) outsider group.

E2: Come to think of it, the genocide victim protagonist being a blonde-haired, blue-eyed young woman with a German-sounding name is eyebrow-raising as well.