"Diverse" works that aren't woke - when diversity does not fuck a movie/game/book/show up

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There is a great Israeli sitcom called Checkout, about a supermarket in a small town. The workers in the supermarket are from different parts of Israeli society - Russian, Mizrachi, Ashkenazi, Ethiopian, Arabs, religious. It works because Israeli society is very education based, rather than ethnicity based (of course education is related to ethnicity indirectly), so it isn't weird for those people all to work in a low income job. Heck, you'd usually see those exact types in supermarkets, which only makes the humour better.

The jokes themselves aren't usually race based, though when the race jokes comes nobody is protected and it's usually the level of "Russian speaks broken Hebrew".

I kinda wonder what kiwis here would think of the show, whether the jokes pass the language and culture barriers. Supposedly it's on Netflix.
 
My Name is Earl was fairly diverse without the wokeness. Sure, Earl and Randy were white dudes, but part of the show was them learning. In the first episode, Earl goes to make amends with a kid he bullied, who grew up to be gay. It has some typical 2000s gay jokes, but by the end, they do indeed become friends, and the gay dude becomes a minor character in his own right. There's also his ex-wife Joy, her black half-sister we meet eventually, the Mexican women who works at the motel they stay in, and Crabman, probably the only likeable bull/cucker ever.

Add in the fact that it was actually a funny show about poor people that didn't go out of its way to make each and every one irredeemable inbred shitheads, and it could be kinda progressive, in an actual good way.
 
A lot of cartoons from the 80s-90s are diverse because they intended to sell doors to different demographics. Still works. For example, Jem:
Shana - black
Aja - Chinese American.
Jerrica & Kimber - White
Raya - Mexican.

Shana and Aja were adopted, so it makes sense they come from minority backgrounds. Raya joined the group later as an adult.

The irony of non-woke diversity in Total Drama Island is that it's likely the producers of the show within the show cast a lot of non-white people to fill their diversity quota.

Movie examples for me are Matrix and Kill Bill. In Matrix, Zion is so diverse because they are waking up people from all over the world: that's the reason why their city is so racially heterogeneous. It'd even make sense that whites are a minority.
 
Arzette: the Jewel of Faramore.

Genuinely had a blast with that game.

The characters are far more racially diverse than in the CD-i games the game parodies. Arzette and her father have noticeably darker skin than most of the other human characters.

Some LGB representation in the game too, a man who drools over a calendar with crossdressing goblins in bikinis, and a baker girl openly lusts after Arzette (and she actually reciprocates).

Even includes anthropomorphic characters as friendly NPCs when they were almost exclusively bad guys in the original CD-i games. Even a subplot where Arzette has to help a wolfman obtain citizenship documents so he can live within the walls of Faramore.

While Arzette does play the role of the straight (wo)man with all of the silliness going on around her (something her counterpart, Zelda, never did), and is a bit of a girlboss who is far more pragmatic than her father or the other characters, and even dissolves the monarchy to reorganize Faramore into a democracy, the game never really crosses the line into outright wokeness. And it's impossible to take any of it seriously anyway, because it's supposed to be cheesey, just like everyone's favorite YTP source.
 
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I would bring up Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul honestly.

We have Walter White, the main character, who is white and has a white family and he over the course of the show goes from sympathetic to being up there with the show's other villains.
Then we have Jesse Pinkman, the second main character who is also white but he goes from a smackhead to a deeply scarred and competent man over the show.

Of course then there is Gustavo Fring who is one of the most powerful people in both shows he was featured in and his race is never really mentioned ever to my recollection. He is even implied to be gay and that again is just never really brought up or focused on.
Gustavo Fring is Gustavo Fring, he isn't the overpowered black guy fantasy that has a stranglehold on the plot because a nervous white guy wrote him...he just fits in with the rest of the villains.

The Salamancas are all mexican mutts with seemingly no redeeming qualities but even they have some nice scenes that show they're not complete monsters. Like every single cartel member respecting and caring for Hector or Tuco caring for his mother/grandmother (including wanting to murder two scammers who called her biznatch)

Then there is also Huel Babinoux, a large fat black guy who is an extremely skilled pick pocket and again his race is never brought up either.

I am aware the show is mostly about white people but I cannot think of a single villain or side character that was just the token black guy or the token asian guy or whatever.
Every character is a terrible person in some way.
 
Mission Hill was a show about two brothers living in the city, the older brother was a slacker who had aspirations to be a cartoonist. The younger brother wanted to get into Yale University.

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I genuinely wasn't racist until the media started telling me that I was racist constantly, and that refusing to acknowledge racial differences because I'm white was mandatory.
Alright mother fucker I'll acknowledge racial differences (NO NOT LIKE THAT NOOOOO).

I think that even shows from the 70s-90s that explicitly mentioned race as a punchline in weird way were less racist than today because we were all like "haha yeah people are different well anyway".
 
Dragon Ball.

Lots of different cultures (east asian, south asian, native american etc.) and characters with various skin tones & personalities.

Everyone who calls Toriyama a racist because he depicts black people with big lips (also it was the 80s!) is a fucking retard. He treats them like characters. Even his depiction of an african man in stereotypical african clothing is still positive.
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Apparently this picture made wokists sperg out on Xitter. But it's not racist at all. Just because his clothes are stereotypical doesn't mean his design is based on hate. Let's change the perspective: Toriyama didn't depict a dumb black monkey man sitting in a tree. It's an african man in traditional african clothes sitting in a tree and watching TV. He knows how to use technology and he understands and is interested in what's going on in the world. This one single frame is telling us a lot about the character but all wokists see is "african stereotype". What a sick mindset these people have.

Also it's not the only character wearing stereotypical clothes.
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South asians didn't complain and I doubt even africans ever complained. It's only a certain group of always offended melanated bastards & their dumb white bootlickers in Burgerland.

Tl;dr Dragon Ball is very diverse & wokists are worthless
 

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Josie And the Pussycats (cartoon and film)
Valerie was never propped up as this token black girl. She was just smart, and not in the Urkel way.
 
I genuinely wasn't racist until the media started telling me that I was racist constantly, and that refusing to acknowledge racial differences because I'm white was mandatory.
Unironically, wokies want that to happen so they can finally "justify" their hallucinated identities as allies to the oppressed. They're the literal worst type of people.
 
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