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ChocolatEyes613 wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: ChocolatEyes613 wrote:

Since you keep bring up hypothetical scenarios.... would you still hold the same opinion, if the genders had been reversed? Or if the Fantastic Beasts film series, has Grindelwald be the mastermind behind the Holocaust? Yes, have a male character rape a female character, to show that he is bad, would also be valid. And sure Grindelwald could be controlling a muggle Hitler to kill other muggles, under the guise of genocide. That would actually be quite an interesting way to work in WWII. Again, to me, that is the point of fiction, to explore all the wildest stories, with as much nonsensicalness as you want. If I want to understand rape or Hitler's thought process, then I'm sure there are plenty of non-fiction materials I can find. Well, I would disagree with you on both scenarios. I would never try to impose my opinion onto another. However, your comment deeply saddens me.

OUaT would have never touched this storyline, had the genders been reversed. They know people would be up in arms, given the current climate in Hollywood.

While, Grindelwald being the puppetmaster of WWII, would just whitewash the autrocities commited by Hitler and the Nazis. I am Jewish and lost 75% of my family, due to WWII and the Holocaust. To exploit what happened during that era, would be incredibily distasteful towards the survivors and victims. Yes, regarding Grindelwald, I doubt they will do something like that, and personally, I'm not a fan of historical fiction, because it is playing with what actually happened, which can easily come off as distasteful or just weird. But people do write it, and people do read it, and I think history is fair game to base a story on (I mean even if you use a historical setting for a book, you are going to use the era, even if you don't use any real people). We can't not allow people to use rape in a plot, or the Holocaust for a story setting, just because it may bother someone, because I can guarentee for every plot point and every setting, I can find someone out there who is bothered by it, and so if we take all that away, we have no stories at all, and that is more dangerous than anything else.