Er. Did you just make a post decrying racial stereotypes in TV, only to make your own inflammatory racial stereotype? O.o
See how easy it is to use the 'wrong' words by accident?
As for my comment just yesterday I told someone: "Wow EA got murdered on the internet over Battlefront loot boxes" and no one bats an eye. I understand the sensitivity but that doesn't help with advocating for the diversity.
In Deus Ex for example they did a really bad african american character in Human Revolution. I don't know what they were thinking with that one but it wasn't handled very well.
Deus Ex Mankind Divided? Hardly any non-white characters that I can remember, I think Chikane was the only one and they put him safely in a helicopter so you'd hardly interact with him outside of your comms.
They learned their lesson to steer well away from that controversy. They had a bunch of eastern Europeans and a few Afghans/Arabs as those are the 'ok' bad guys anyway.
The same with the jews. you'd hardly see any outspoken jews in video games or TV shows because it's quite a delicate subject in a lot of countries. Especially when it comes to WW2. So they take the easy way out and just skip that entirely.
And that's the truth. portray your black character in a negative manner(or simply fuck up the portrayal of your character) and the internet will eat you and your creation alive and the same thing goes for many other subjects.
Nazi's in your WW2 flick can't be too nice, communists fighting against Nazi's can't be too evil, American agents can't lose to Jihadi's etc. .
Some things are o.k. like stereotypical Italians mobsters, evil Nazi's, bad corporations/CEO's, Russian terrorists and Mexican drug dealers.
I mean, you'd never see a Bond flick in which Daniel Craig fights a black revolutionary force led by a charismatic but ultimately devious civil rights leader (say Idris Elba) even though it would be an interesting plot.
No one would touch the script with a 10 foot pole. However, the same script with Daniel Craig fighting the same revolutionary force in some no-name Eastern European or Asian country? No problem.
Even the wonder woman film for all the praise it got being bold was very 'safe'. You have a girl fighting Germans with the help of some washed up English characters and a US soldier. It's hardly controversial material.
Doing something like Django, now that takes balls but if you mess it up your career is over.
This is also why the big screen is filled with CG armies and weird aliens/demons these days. Because they're universally accepted as being bad guys with no distinct racial or national features.
If Wonder Woman fights the Russians, they get angry and ban the film, if she fights the Arabs they get angry and ban the film if they haven't already, if she fights Americans, does she fight Republicans or Democrats, either would get angry.
China? Well, they'll pull the plug on some funding.
If people want to see more diverse characters in movies and TV shows they have to accept that writers will sometimes fuck up writing the characters. Until people agree that there's no 'hidden' agenda on the part of the writer to attack their 'race' outside of their fiction this is not going to change.
Now this is not only true for films advocating diversity or painting a certain race in a negative light. Star Wars got dragged through the mud by the alt-right nutjobs for advocating interracial relationships or some shit like that and mocked by the pro-diversity groups for leaving out some characters on the poster for China.
No matter what you do someone, somewhere will be offended.
