r/TopCharacterTropes • u/KusanagiGundam • 15d 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/RSquared 15d ago

Meanwhile "good Confederate" Robert E Lee constantly used his own poor financial status (because he was a shit businessman) to excuse his inherited slaveholding in violation of the will of his wife's father (which required emancipation). It was a delightful bit of irony that the US Government annexed his plantation for the purpose of establishing Arlington Cemetery.

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u/AllgoodDude 15d ago

Also despite the attempts to paint him as a “kind” slave owner the due managed to make it into the newspaper for how badly he beat a slave that tried to escape.

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u/Ok-Place7950 15d ago

Fuck that traitor bastard. If he'd kept true to his oath like Winfield Scott and George Henry Thomas, the war would've been over sooner and thousands of lives saved. Or am I overrating his generalship?

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u/RSquared 14d ago edited 14d ago

He was basically competent, which is why I don't support naming a fort after him (unlike Benning, Bragg, and AP Hill, who all did more for the union cause than their own side). 

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u/Ok-Place7950 14d ago

It's amazing how historians are pretty much unanimous in their opinion that Bragg was the worst general of the entire war - when his competition includes complete asses like Leonidas Polk and Dan Sickles.