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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Ok on your first exmple: would you bat an eye if it was just 2 random people in love that couldn't be together because of whatever reason?
What may I ask is the difference between 2 real people and 2 fictional characters based on the same premise? Or even ancient times?
How is slavery any different despite the times?
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The difference is that Dothraki supremacists don't walk in our streets, chanting "Hail Khal Drogo". The difference is that descendants of Roman slaves aren't more likely to be shot by the police, or less likely to get jobs, than descendants of Roman slave owners.
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As to the romantizing: well Sally and Thomas were lovers. I think they would have been anyway. Where I would have a problem is where they idolize the oppressors.
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Yep, that
is the problem. A novel which describes a sexual relationship between a grown slave owner and a slave child as a consensual romance, which imagines that she could have said "No",
does idolize the oppressors.