That’s what good writing does.

However, that doesn’t change what perceptions were/are across the board.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Spiderman/s/CFYF5YUMD8

Its funny how insanely accurate SP is sometimes.

I feel like it was clear that Cartman was representing the racist right wingers who made anti wokeness their whole identity, meanwhile the other kids were normal folks who cannot make sense out of some characters suddenly genderswapping and preaching about social issues.

Stan and Kyle literally said they didn’t care about race-swapping.

The point of them was that the issue isn’t diversity, the issue is just lazy writing.

Miles Morales was used as their focal point because he is a race-swapped Spiderman who were in storylines that did preach about social issues. They like Miles because he’s actually written as a real character instead of a cash grab.

To preface, I agree with you about originality.

I don’t personally know anyone who has problems with non-white characters.

Unfortunately, I do and I’m not just talking about the online communities that are actually bigoted.

I’m from the southern United States. I have family members and routinely meet people that will go on racist tirades about representation in media being an agenda for “white genocide”. They will use “logical” arguments to hide their racism and then immediately expose their true feelings. They’ll say shit like “Why don’t they just make original characters and stories?” and then refuse to watch movies/shows that do, soley because they aren’t white.

This happens with any minority led production.

Gay representation is the worst magnet for this behavior because then their argument will always boil down to religion which literally can’t be reasoned with.

However it’s also fascinating how misogyny can sometimes fold in onto itself as a lot of men here will do this shit against any female led media and actively ruin relationships with the women here because a lot of women actually enjoy these productions.

The cherry on top is that these people will actively enjoy any media that portrays minorities as stereotypes and a punchline but will immediately groan when they’re portrayed as normal people.