Board Thread:Manga/@comment-25228560-20170402150806

" Over the course of 1,700 years, the Eldians would designate all other races of the world as inferior and resort to genocide and rape in order to cleanse the world of other peoples"

Okay, this is one of the worst things I have read about Eldians. Of course, Paradis is mentioned to be a mixed race of Eldians and Marlayans, but, I hope Eren and Co realise that the power of Titans had made Eldians arrogant, inhuman, perverse and completely monstrous - more so than Titans and now current Marlayans. I mean systemic violence and oppression of other races don't make Eldians a pretty nice bunch either.

I think the best thing would be if in some way the people of Paradis can be a beacon that Eldians and Marlayens can live together. After all, many other races do live in Paradis and Mikasa Ackerman is a representation of that. But the Eldians also have persecuted the Asian lineage. One of the problematic elements of this manga is that Mikasa seems well, unhinged, by the devastation of her people. And Eren seems completely unhinged by the past acts of Eldians on other races. This is a reductionism of what it means to be human. Like I know Mikasa really loves her family and all but I think it was important that Mikasa also feel some resentment towards the government for hurting her people. Similarly, Eren should understand that his own people had unjustly done horrible things.

Things should change and not be all about all-out war again. It just feels kinda simplistic and cuts down the complexity of the series to do so.  