I meant the other dad, the "Robert E. Lee" Ewell (had to look it up because I didn't remember anything besides him being literally named Robert E Lee) one. The one who its implied molests his daughter so she "sought out" comfort in the black guy, which is what lead to him getting accused and killed. Which of course means that she both got him into the situation and then went along with everything that ended with him getting killed, only lacking agency if you agree that "being a victim" absolves women of any possible responsibility for their actions.

Scout's dad is treated like a real American hero in the original novel, you are correct. However the sequel published like a decade ago (after the author died, against her will, written nearly a century prior) spends most of its run time calling him actually a racist and a bad man all along.

Apparently it was an early draft of what would become To Kill a Mockingbird and was just kept as a personal hobby for the author to work on throughout her life, so its canon is dubious. But its such a wild shift that it almost wild in how hard it tries to torpedo him, while also dodging literally all the philosophical, moral and legal basis the racism in the book has to call it bad. Something the original novel at least allowed to be thought about.