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But what are you basing this claim on besides vague intuition? The Demons in the setting are the chauvinists, their entire society is stractured around elitism and domination, they're not a put upon minority ethnic group
The concept of monsters or even races of monsters is not inherently tied to real world realities concerning race and ethnicity, you need the allusions that actually form that connection to make that claim, and you can make those claims about AOT and some other suss anime, but not Frieren
The allusions that define the Demons of Frieren are those of imperialist Europeans and the deprivations of European nobility, that's why the Demons are always ridiculously dripped out, they're what the rich in the real world want to be, their ideal platonic form
The Demons are the ones committing pogroms, they explicitly genocide the elves because the Demon King ordered it, Frieren is literally a victim of genocide, that's the source of her hatred, her character has more in common with the popular imaginary of a post war Nazi hunter than some Gestapo thug looking for "demon" girls hiding in an attic