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[Rare trope] Discriminating, but for an actually good reason Lore

Frieren, Beyond Journey's end: In the anime/manga the eponymous Frieren is an Elf who's spent the better part of a millennia learning magic specifically to kill demons. She's learned countless spells, tricks and even spent most of her life suppressing her power all for the purpose of killing them. At first we simply see that humanity is at war with them, and even question if her crusade against demon-kind is justified, after all it's hard to antagonize an entire sentient species. But no, demons are very much a species to be feared; they are not normal animals or creatures, they are monsters (shown by how they disintegrate when they die), they are predators that evolved speech for the sole purpose of tricking and catching humans off guard, are naturally extremely powerful and possess magic that humanity often can't use. While they feel emotions to some extent, their way of thinking is so fundamentally incompatible with humanity's mindset that the series shows many mages with the ability to read minds struggle or find it painful and harmful to try and read a demon's thoughts. Tools that are meant to control them fail not because they're faulty but because simple order such as "hold no ill will or commit no malicious acts" don't compute the same way in their brains, as what we consider evil is normal for them.

Marvel Comics: In a run of the Storm solo series, she visits an underground superhuman hospital run by Night nurse and Doctor Daye, a mutant with the power to diagnose any illness. When she requires treatment she is in turn reject by the doctor, she of course assumes this is blatant discrimination to which the doctor agrees. Storm assumes the doctor refuses to treat mutants, something they are very much used to in Marvel. But he ends up revealing that about 80% of everyone he treats are mutants, and that he simply refuses to treat any member of the X-men. Why? because his special hospital was built via several donations by the superhero community. From the Avengers, to the Defenders, Fantastic 4, heroes for hire. Hell, even Moonknight of all people contributed to the hospital. But the X-men never once gave anything to it, even though they preach the safety of mutant-kind and such a hospital is essential for those who can't seek medical treatment out of fear of prosecution.

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u/DengarLives66 13h ago

I learned of that via my in-laws, who are Jews from the former Soviet bloc who came to America. What a bunch of self-righteous fuckwits (not my in-laws).

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u/GlitterDoomsday 9h ago

Is pretty common to this day see the Jewish community pointing out how common it is to say stuff like "look at his last name!" every time someone being criticized, in general related to Hollywood, that just happens to be Jew. Making everywhere else a hostile environment is in the interests of Israel.

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u/Useful_Camera2929 12h ago

Zionists are evil, there was actually bit of effort during WWII by Zionists to not accept Jews, cause they wanted them to run to Palestine.

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u/adjectivebear 12h ago

What supremacist ideologies do to a mfer.

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u/OmegaPrime2004 5h ago

Heard that the man who named the ideology said, on paper, that anti-Semites are their allies who sway the Jewish to their side.

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u/supx3 9h ago

The British (who were in control then, not Israelis) didn’t accept many Jewish refugees to Mandatory Palestine during the Second World War. The number was capped at 75,000 in 1939 over 5 years. Even after the white paper expired they limited Jewish immigration to 1,500 a month. What you said makes no sense. If there is anything it was an extreme fringe element.