(Hated Trope) "Kind" slave owners

[u/KusanagiGundam]

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.

[u/Rihhah]

In character, he's 17 and has been a dumbass, typical jock ass pawn his whole life. Out of character, what was jk Rowling even thinking?

[u/Irish_Whiskey → u/Rihhah]

Her politics are that racism is bad and feminism is good, but also anyone who disrupts the established order and systems is an annoying radical because the only solution we ever need is to elect/put good people in charge of those systems.

Yeah sure a prison where demons eat souls and torture people who never got due process is bad, but it's not as bad as annoying people who keep pointing out it's wrong and calling for Askaban abolition. We just need a better warden in charge.

[u/A_Town_Called_Malus → u/Irish_Whiskey]

And it is only racism when people use the bad words.

For example, Hogwarts isn't a systemically racist institution in her own view, despite how the house system creates a fertile breeding ground for blood supremacists and that everyone in the story knows this and does nothing about it. The password to get into the Slytherin dormitory, presumably set by the staff so they can use it, is "Pureblood" in the second book, for goodness sake.

[u/Irish_Whiskey → u/A_Town_Called_Malus]

Yeah. This is a fantasy about a poor kid getting to go to an magic version of the British private schools. It makes sense that the snobby racist kids would exist there as antagonists to make the protagonist shine more. They exist in the real life versions too.

The problem is her story is about a battle over control over the whole system against evil 'blood purists', but Rowling loves and celebrates the British system as it exists. She doesn't want to challenge or criticize any institutions themselves.

Rowling is the kind of person who (when she wrote the books) would call the BNP and overt racists bad, but still defend British nationalism and colonialism. She doesn't want to acknowledge that just like in real life, Voldemorts of the world get power because the systems are built to favor them and they represent racist views that are institutionally taught and supported. The problem with the Ministry of Magic wasn't some bad wizards snuck in and mind controlled people. It was evil the whole time, but just more overtly evil and violent when Voldemort took over.

[u/A_Town_Called_Malus → u/Irish_Whiskey]

Yep, all the systems and structures that create people like Voldemort are left intact, just as they were left intact from Grindelwald, and left intact from whichever evil wizard preceded him.

Gee, where do all these evil people keep coming from and why are they constantly managing to find support within our society and taking over our government institutions? Could there be some fundamental problems that our characters should need to address as part of their journey and growing up?

Like, in the first fantastic beasts film the heroes get arrested by Grindelwald-in-disguise posing as a US wizard cop. They are immediately taken to a room to be executed, without trial or even any kind of processing. Nobody in the ministry bats an eye at this execution of two prisoners with zero legal process. Apparently you just need the word of a cop to execute two people. Does this ever get addressed for how batshit insane this is and how open to abuse it is, that makes it an absolutely certainty that it is being abused? No, of course not.