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The big headcannon is that carnivores were blacks being imposing on the super peaceful predators. People like to back this up with the original idea of the shock collars for extra brownie points. But SJ's being SJ's completely fail to miss the point of the movie. Instead of the message being "everything isn't perfect and we have our differences, but we should treat each other how we would like to be treated" its "muh racism metaphor."
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If we're really gonna equate the story in Zootopia with racism, consider this: Predators are the equivalent of white people.
'They're dangerous!', 'They've overruled us for too long!', 'We are far more than them in numbers!' (if we consider world population rather than simply those in Western countries), 'Hating us is in their blood!', etc, etc...
I've never actually brought up this 'theory' in front of an SJW but that's mainly bc I'm not suicidal.
But really? imho Zootopia expressed a form of discrimination that went with the logic of the universe it's set in. It tells a new story and narrative rather than lazily copy-paste a specific IRL issue and call it a metaphor. There's a thousand interpretations for it and none is correct, but you can't tell that to certain people.