@justhide don't feel attacked at all and your vocabulary is great! no need to worry. I do think that fiction is capable of changing our perspectives, morals and beliefs just as much as non-fiction can. Not in the sense that we will start believing in dragons and magic but more through subliminal...
@RexNemorensis I said that because the nazis had propeganda which literally depicted Jewish people as demons (yes, Christian demons) that were there to manipulate and terrorise the "innocent aryans". I get that demons in Christian mythology are supposed to embody evil, but I recommend thinking...
I can't get behind humanoid races being inherently evil. We are what our environment makes us and biology is not a deciding factor for our moral framework.
This kind of black & white trope just reminds me of racist propegando created by nazi Germany and American slave owners.
For these demons...
How the fuck did the editor or publisher let this just pass? Slaughtering an indigenous population for no reason and portraying them as the bad guys because they try to defend their families! That's really messed up and spreads a bad message to impressionable readers, is the author a crazy...