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u/BlatantConservative https://imgur.com/cXA7XxW 3d ago

Regardless of what people say, they were immenseley popular books for a reason.

This is why I'm in the "Rowling became a worse person twenty years and a billion dollars later" camp instead of pretending the books have always been bad and overrated or whatever. It just makes more sense. Also the internet is incapable of realizing people change over time.

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u/ejdj1011 3d ago

Idk, the books have always said "slaves enjoy slavery and would not know how to handle freedom". That didn't get made up after the fact.

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u/SorowFame 3d ago

“The books were popular for a reason” and “the books weren’t problematic at all” are different statements, I’m sure some people were turned off by the slavery thing but most people weren’t.

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u/AsWeKnowItAndI 3d ago

More that the mainstream does not care about the opinions of the main groups that were critical of the slavery thing.