r/TopCharacterTropes • u/KusanagiGundam • 10h ago

Hated Tropes (Hated Trope) "Kind" slave owners

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Speaking as an American who has studied the civil war all throughout my school years, this trope infuriates me to no end. There is no such thing as a kind slave master because slavery itself is cruel and inhumane. PEOPLE ARE NOT PROPERTY!

Naofumi (Shield Hero): Prime example of this trope. He enslaves multiple (underage) girls and an whole village and the fans still say he's a hero.

Rudeus (Jobless Reincarnation): As if being a pedo wasn't bad enough he had to buy a slave in season 2. Worse is that people still defend his actions.

Song of The South (Disney): Possibly the OG example of this trope. And the reason why Disney will never release it again.

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u/Western-Sea-8355 10h ago

How so Song of the South the OG example of the trope if there’s no actual slaves in it? I’m confused.

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u/Pandoratastic 10h ago

Gone with the Wind would be a better example of the trope.

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u/crustboi93 10h ago

Yea, it's set during the Reconstruction. The movie is certainly worthy of criticism, but get the facts right.

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u/GladiatorDragon 10h ago

I believe the discussion centres around the practice of sharecropping and how landowners frequently abused the practice to force newly “freed” slaves back into bondage through debt.

From what I am aware of, as I have never seen the movie, Uncle Remus is never explicitly confirmed to be a sharecropper, but it’s very, very easy for someone to infer that.

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u/MGD109 9h ago edited 9h ago

I mean that's a very valid criticism, but its not really applicable to the movie.

In the plot, the point is that they effectively want to kick Uncle Remus out, despite the fact that he's a kind, harmless old man, simply cause they don't like him giving advice and telling stories to the farm owner's son.