Thank you for the work, king At some point I just started laughing in disbelief at some of these comments.
The only way this story would have worked with a white mc is if the mc was literally abolitionist John Brown whos parents were also abolitionists and not fucking slave owners
These people are just so fucking dumb it's unreal i genuinely can not believe the level of ignorance
Bruh, I never really bought into the whole "porn rots your brain" thing until now. We really have people out here acting like it's a civil rights issue that they can't read master × slave yaoi
The story is problematic because it leans on a very old and very obvious trope: enslaved characters with no real agency whose main narrative function is to validate the morality of a white “redeemer.” That’s why people call it a white savior framing not because slavery appears in it, but because of how power and character agency are distributed and the argument that “critics are just the same people who defend X in fiction” is just a deflection with no basis. You don’t get to lump together unrelated audiences to dodge criticism of a specific narrative choice. Disliking racist framing in a story doesn’t automatically map onto whatever unrelated debates you guys want to drag in.
Use your fucking brains for once.