No Good Eldians

 Episode 8 of Attack On Titan is out, so go watch it before reading this spoiler-filled post.

In this episode, we learn that Gabi, one of the Warrior cadets, one of the children striving to be "Honorary Marleyans", has the ambition of proving to the world that Eldians are good people. This backfires spectacularly because of the New Eldian Empire's raid on the internment zone, killing two of her friends and massacring hundreds more, including the Marleyan top brass. Neither side doubts that this will bring the entire world down on Paradis' head. 

Enraged, Gabi chases the fleeing Eldians all the way to their airship, with Falco tagging along to help her. Her hate drives her to throw away her own life by attacking a heavily-armed team of adult soldiers, similar to suicide by cop. She blames them for ruining the image she's trying to craft of the Eldians being respectful, kind, and peaceful people, that can contribute and live in harmony with the world. 

While Gabi is presented as a very tragic character, being raised from birth to worship Marley and believe the lies she's told about her history, I can't help but hate her for how stupid she is. She's seen firsthand that even when her comrades are tending to the wounds of enemy combatants, they ask to be left alone so as not to be infected by the Eldians' devil blood. She has undoubtedly seen the Marleyans use her people as suicide bombers, and she was there when they forced a group of them to turn into titans, before turning them loose onto a city.

Her irritating nature is definitely intentional, and in this episode it is played for full dramatic effect. This girl is the pinnacle of Marleyan brainwashing, and Falco is the only one keeping her in check, trying to save her from inheriting the Armored Titan. 

There are many people like Gabi in real life. I used to be one of them; in my post "On the Nature of Red Pills" I mention that I once tried to rehabilitate the words "White pride" by arguing that White pride and White supremacy are two different things, at my school's poetry slam. Most anti-SJW YouTubers back in the day were all about exposing the hypocrisy of calling all men sexist or calling all Whites racist because "not all Whites/men/Straight people are like that." My rationale reciting the poem was "okay, all races can live in harmony, because we can all be proud of who we are without hating each other." That's really what it boils down to- I didn't want to be hated.

Nowadays, you see it with people like the Lincoln Project and Liz Cheney. (P.S The founder of the Lincoln Project got exposed as a gay pedophile today, so make sure your male friends aren't affiliated with them). They don't want to support liberalism per se, so they try to make themselves out to be the "good Whites" by opposing those nasty Nazis. The difference between them and Honorary Marleyans is that they take the position that race doesn't matter, and that color blindness is the answer to police brutality and systemic racism. It's the classic Neocon strategy of "accept the left's morality, but quibble with their methodology." 

To Gabi, all the Eldians of Paradis have to do to be seen as "good" is surrender, and hand over Eren to the rightful Marleyan rulers. She doesn't stop to consider that no one else wants to live as she does- in a ghetto, undergoing grueling training, before inheriting a titan that will shorten your lifespan down to 13 years. In fact, although she does not know it, Reiner and the other Marleyan warriors on the original mission were trying to wipe out the entire population of Paradis. Reiner explicitly tells Eren in Season 2 that his and Bertholt's goal was to make sure humanity [behind the walls] was erased. 

The lesson to take from all this, is that just like there are no Honorary Marleyans, there are no Good Eldians. The only way to live is in accordance with God's will, not what other people think of you. I said it in my poem, but I never really believed it until I became truly redpilled: "I'm proud to be White, because that's the way God made me." Everyone knows that living for someone else's approval isn't healthy, but Good Eldians live for the approval of literally everyone but straight White Christian males. 

However, Good Eldians and Honorary Marleyans have one crucial difference: it is possible to redpill a Good Eldian. If I made the jump, so can others.

I'm trying to think of a clever Attack On Titan reference to describe pro-Whites, but I can't think of anything yet. 

God bless you and good night!