As has been pointed out by a large amount of the fanbase hating sabertooth and the idea that maybe he was in fact punished for something that if it was anyone else they would have been just forgiven. It’s difficult for some people to read a story about racism and minorities fighting for equality where some of the biggest obstacles are other members of that same group and that’s a discussion we need to have in these books too. Because that’s very real and you can see it in modern politics all the time