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Imagine having to parrot the most obvious shit ever over and over again
It's so tiring it's like they're genuinely dumb
what it means to be a thickskulled dumbass
Open the schools y'all
How many time are y'all going to act ignorant af about the reason people are not okay with this story, how many time does something need to be explained before y'all get it through your heads? Like are you people just seeing people getting called slurs and instead of idk understand this story opened a space for racist y'all dick ride it?
Anyway here a explanation "The problem was never that the story acknowledged slavery. It's that it made slavery the backdrop for a narrative centered on the humanity and morality of someone from the slave-owning family. Whether he frees the enslaved people or not doesn't erase that framing it reinforces it by making his "goodness" the emotional focus. That's why "would you rather he stayed a slave owner?" isn't really the question. No, I'd rather the story not use the suffering of enslaved people primarily to establish the protagonist as noble. As for the "I'm your slave" line, yes, context matters. In a story explicitly set around slavery, using that language carries different weight than it would in a modern fantasy or consensual BDSM context. People aren't criticizing the phrase in isolation; they're criticizing it within the story's historical framing. Regarding the author's apology, I don't think anyone should harass or insult her personally. Criticizing the work is fair. Harassing the creator isn't. She herself decided she wasn't confident she could portray the subject with the care it deserved, and that's her decision.."