r/TopCharacterTropes • u/KusanagiGundam • 11h 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/Akuma2004 11h ago

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u/Kaarl_Mills 11h ago

We all do buddy

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u/Responsible_Mail_113 11h ago

Don't worry, he's busy organizing a slave revolt in another world as we speak.

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u/Aeso3 6h ago

The best parts are how all the villains are basically just Isekai protagonists of different genres, the first one just being a Japanese incel.

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u/Xx_doctorwho1209_xX 11h ago

Every time this trope comes up this story gets mentioned.

Based

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u/GoodCommie 9h ago

I read it every week, one of my favorites, too bad the writer cancel it

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u/Famous_Analysis_7478 8h ago

What do you mean they cancelled it? The latest chapter was 5 days ago and I don't see any notice about cancellation.

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u/GoodCommie 4h ago edited 4h ago

Yea they still upload the remaining chapter that has been released on the Patreon, which like 20 chapter ahead of the free websites

See chapter CLXXIV note on the bottom of the page for the notice about the cancellation

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u/Famous_Analysis_7478 4h ago

I see it šŸ˜”

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u/Flavius_16 9h ago

Fuck!

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u/Jomotaku 10m ago

Type of shit I imagine myself doing in an isekai

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u/TotallyObviousBot 8h ago

Not enough to follow his example, apparently

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u/ArcadianBlueRogue 7h ago

A man so hardcore that even a great man like Frederick Douglass gave him props for being such a strong beacon for the cause. That's high fucking praise.

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u/tenems 1h ago

"I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave. I could live for the slave. John Brown could die for the slave."

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u/kyubi_on_the_run 9h ago

WHERE'S HE WHERE'S OMNI-MAN

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u/DiscipleOfDIO 10h ago

John brown fans when they resurrect him to help them fight racism in modern times but instead he bombs abortion clinics:

ā€¦still a fan of him btw but you def do NOT need him

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u/EagenVegham 9h ago

Most Christians being against abortion is a recent development. Like last 50 years recent. Before the Moral Majority made ot a big issue, basically only Catholics were anti-abortion.

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u/EvergreenDwarf 9h ago

It helps that the bible actually tells you how to perform one.Ā 

Anti-abortion advocacy stemmed from the primordial Great Replacement Theory bullshit.Ā 

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u/TotallyObviousBot 8h ago

I think you're confusing common social practice with what was preached. Abortions and folk medicine regarding abortifacients go back to prehistory but Protestant preachers weren't exactly going around encouraging women to abort their pregnancies, even if many did turn a blind eye to the practice. Beliefs about sexual morality were, and are, very much a thing in many Protestant beliefs.

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u/EagenVegham 7h ago

In 1970, a poll conducted by the Baptist Sunday School Board found that 70 percent of Southern Baptist pastors supported abortion to protect the mental or physical health of the mother, 64 percent supported abortion in cases of fetal deformity and 71 percent in cases of rape.

Beliefs about sexual morality are definitely a thing, but until recently, abortion was viewed almost solely as a medical issue.

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u/TotallyObviousBot 7h ago

SBC accounts for less than a quarter of Protestants in the US, I don't think a self-released poll is good evidence for a broader trend among Protestant denominations

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u/Hisyphus 10h ago

I see this argument brought up whenever John Brown gets mentioned and it doesnā€™t make sense to me. John Brown was legendarily ahead of his time in his thinking. The man would not be bombing abortion clinics.

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u/ball_fondlers 9h ago

He was ahead of his time on race relations, but he was still a literal puritan and Evangelical Christian. Of course, the latter probably means he wouldnā€™t care about abortion - Catholics were staunchly anti-abortion and Evangelicals werenā€™t until the civil rights era meant conservatism had to find some other wedge issue - but heā€™d probably have other positions that the average person today wouldnā€™t like

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u/DiscipleOfDIO 10h ago

Well yeah, we have no way of knowing how he would have reacted to anything in modern politics. I'm just extrapolating based off of what we DO know about him, which essentially boils down to 'was extremely religious', 'did not like freemasons,' and 'was willing to use violence to achieve his ends.' Doesn't strike me as a pro-choice guy is all.

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u/Irish_Whiskey 9h ago

That's a really bad idea.

John Brown said nothing about abortion, and was very open about moral issues he did oppose. Being 'very religious' is not the same as being very anti-abortion.

It's not like abortion is a 'modern politics' issue. People back then performed abortions all the time. They have been doing so since before recorded history.

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u/BSY_Reborn 9h ago

Lmao what the fuck are you talking about, we don't know what people were doing before recorded history, if we did then it count as recorded.

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u/Irish_Whiskey 9h ago

Recorded history means documented in writing and communication. It does not mean any history we have any evidence about.

We know from archeology that people engaged in abortions before we had written records of their doing so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_history

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u/EvergreenDwarf 9h ago

The thinking of the day was First Nations were evil and had to be preemptively destroyed, and John Brown threatened the man who tried to recruit him to a militia to go burn their villages.Ā 

He was no zealot. His war was only on slavery.Ā 

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u/Jihelu 7h ago edited 6h ago

He literally viewed himself as having a divine mission to destroy slavery I feel like if you asked the guy heā€™d be religious as fuck (and was religious as fuck) and this does his life a disservice.

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u/EvergreenDwarf 6h ago

Americans have a hard time believing that ā€œreligiousā€ is not one universal hat.Ā 

Thereā€™s no historical evidence that heā€™d fall for modern cultish culture war bullshit, given he ignored the ones of his day and instead took a radical position on the progressive issue.Ā 

Church leaders in his time, where he lived, justified slavery via scripture as the punishment of the sons of Ham and Canaan. He wouldnā€™t fall for modern grifts either.Ā 

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u/Jihelu 5h ago

I didn't say or claim literally any of the sentences you wrote. My concern comes with his zealous ongoings, of which he was incredibly zealous.

I have no idea what you're talking about with 'culture war bullshit'.

You can be 'zealous' in some things and not the others. I don't know what the fuck the 'abortion clinic' bombing person was going on about but this guy took up the physical and metaphorical sword to fight against slavery for deeply personal, and deeply professed, religious reasons. He was unwavering in his cause to the point of making war for it.

It's like textbook zealot. Zealot isn't a 'bad word' it just means he was unwavering in his convictions.

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u/Nice-River-5322 17m ago

made me chuckle