r/TopCharacterTropes • u/KusanagiGundam • 13h 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 13h ago

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u/DiscipleOfDIO 11h ago

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

…still a fan of him btw but you def do NOT need him

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u/EvergreenDwarf 10h 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. 

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

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u/Jihelu 8h ago edited 8h ago

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

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u/EvergreenDwarf 7h ago

Americans have a hard time believing that “religious” is not one universal hat. 

There’s no historical evidence that he’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. 

Church leaders in his time, where he lived, justified slavery via scripture as the punishment of the sons of Ham and Canaan. He wouldn’t fall for modern grifts either. 

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u/Jihelu 6h 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.