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Wokeness by itself has never been an issue for me but the people who believe it's profitable to "be woke" often miss the point. I don't want a black character in place of an established white character. I want new stories that have that diversity from the foundation. I don't want things to be replaced, I want them to be phased out gradually by the introduction of more "woke" things seperated from current things.
Overcorrecting can be as bad as the problem originally was and in doing so can garner hate from an otherwise neutral party.
Agreed. People love Miles Morales and don't want a black reimagining of Peter Parker.
I get the decision to make Sulu bi in the star trek movies, but the problem was never that sulu wasn't allowed to be queer, but that George Takei wasn't. If anybody in TOS should be made bi it's Spock and Kirk. Sulu was just a straight character played by a gay actor.
Not looking to pick a fight, but imo nothing about TOS was (totally) straight, least of all how Takei played Sulu.