Smear-Gel said:
There is no provable metric that shows doing something for the sake of it worsen's the product, especially since you yourself also say its shallow and thus, doesnt really matter.
Yes, I agree.
Gonna start at the end and say that oh well if you're looking at this as so simple, because every issue on earth is more complicated than it seems. This will be the only part of my comment that is snarky. For the part you have a big problem with, I dont think I'm hypocritical at all, because the two situations simply arent equal. Because I'm looking at the wider CONTEXT. In a world where everyone was always equal from the beginning of time, all instances of changing the race or gender of a character would be equally a problem. In this world, where media was 99% white and male for hundreds of years due to racial and gender biases deeply entrenched in society, things get a bit more nuanced. Making a white protagonist in a movie black will change one movie out of 6 coming out that week. making one black protagonist white will remove probably one of 3 films with a black protag coming out that year. You cant ignore the context of these situations and the wider world we are in, the history, or any of that. Because the reason for so many people being white wasnt just a natural part of society, it was because of certain biases that entrenched that as the default. It's the same reason Black Panther became political, because a major superhero movie with that budget, that cast, and a black director being so successful is a major deal in terms of representation, and until it becomes commonplace, people will make a big deal about it.
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Only going to address the part that we've both acknowledged as the only part I care about (I'm on lunch and I'm not wasting the whole thing debating dumb shit):
Changing a fictional character in an established IP into something else for the sake of diversity is a perversion of art. Period. If you want more black superheroes, literally nothing is stopping you from making them. Comic fans (see: actual comic fans, not MCU fans and "OMG im such a nerd" fans) generally don't like it when the main canon of their favorite IPs is altered for no good reason.
If you can't make Miles Morales white, you can't make Peter Parker black. If you can't make Batwoman straight, you can't make Bobby Drake gay. Just because a race/gender/sexuality/identity is over-represented doesn't give everyone agency to change then into whatever they want while claiming the reverse is against the rules.
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