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Or she could have not set it right after the civil war. She could have had her gay cowboy 15% Native American ML with a white vet MC if she just shifted the timeline by a couple more years and explored the topic of manifest destiny instead. But even that would have required a lot of research and skill to execute
exactly! it needed some minor tweaks to make this a less insensitive.
Ok so this is abolitionist x slave(??) trope which is only marginally better than the fuck ass master x slave trope ig. Except the author did not even make the ML african american but merely 'hinting' at the slavery.....
My two cents: BL is a space where intelligent discourse is actively discouraged,unfortunately. Rape should not be complained about, the recurrent misogny and stereotyping, the inherent homphobic nature of some of these yaois etc. so I don't think an author should write about real life sensitive issues that are STILL ongoing, the wounds of which is STILL fresh, of the author doesn't have the brains or guts to do it properly, with proper research, and ACCURATE depictions. If you are not capable, then don't even use it. She could have easily created some random medieval or fictional cowboy fantasy thing and her fans would've ate up anything.