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[CW: Racism] I was a much happier person before I'd heard of Frieren (hexbear.net)
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[–] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Having not watched it & after noping out of the internet for several hours after reading some of the responses in the linked thread, what is it about the show that lets some people interpret the demons as white colonizers while others see them as various marginalized groups?

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    There's a scene where a guy takes pity on a baby demon and decides to raise it in a human village but then the baby demon goes on to kill a bunch of people because it is an inherently evil creature and so not killing the baby demon was sentimental foolishness.

    This is such a common fascist idea that, as seen in the tweet, they have a term for it - "suicidal empathy."

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