Netflix released the original show “Supacell” with new and original characters, but in the comments, right-wingers are complaining that the protagonists are black. The film quiet place day one was released and had a black protagonist. The character is new, original and coherent. Quiet Place is set in the USA black people exist in the USA, so what’s the problem? If they are going to complain anyway, then why do they ask to make new characters?
right wingers are never going to be happy unless they are able to thump their Bible on to minorities the act of cruelty is the point not a means to an end. Think about it when social media made a spaces for right wingers to be they still wanted to be on the mainstream ones becase they are addicted to the rage.
They won’t be happy even if they get their way because the house of fascism is to always have the in group beat down the out group to keep the few in power when they eradicate the first out group then create a new out group with a new round of purity tests. and the cycle starts over. it’s a story as old as time.
now to answer your question about why you may hear it more when they change a trace of a character from one races to another to modernize older characters. we that’s becase while the right wingers are always going to moan and rage there are people that see not like that that don’t like it for different reason and that is hollow corporate choices are made not for really pushing representation but becase they can get a demo of 18 to 34 year old by saying they do.
Like have you every noticed how all the characters in DC comics they changed from white to black were Red Heads. They changed from one minority to another and they want a pat on the back for it. Hell look at the gay or trans communities they want to make everyone gay but just enough to not piss off China.
also no one can just be gay they have to play it up for drama. when what each group needs is not stereotypes onscreen or characters where the thing that makes them a minority is their whole personality. it makes them one dimensional and like I said before hollow. i want cool characters that happen to be gay or black or trans, etc vs gay or black or trans characters.
That’s why star trek (while flawed in some ways) was so powerful in the 60s it normalize not dramatized a black woman working side by side with all races. To just tell stories not black stories or women stories.
To me anything else is more racist becase the Corps are just playing us all for fools all the way to bank and they don’t want real change cause the money machine dries up. It saddens me that every under represented group is so starved for representation they take what ever they can get and the Corps know this.
sorry I will get off my soap box as someone in a minority group it stings when I think about it.