This kind of thing is a double edged sword. On one hand, I support any comic company that would try to shake up the tired status quo that Mainstream Comics has been guilty of incorporating. And it is eyebrow raising that the ones who complain about any positive change concerning a minority or a female character are white males who are behind the times. Yet on the other hand, when you have Marvel Comic's mandate that involves bullying a consumer to buy the product by saying "If you don't support us then you're [insert prejudicial term here]" The fact that the characters within Marvel Comics have devolved into self-righteous soap box sadie's doesn't help their case either.
In spite of all of this, the real agenda of this whole thing is that Disney really doesn't care about diversity. All they care is using that term as a means to attract newer audiences to their product. Because that is what mega corporations do. They manipulate the audience into buying their product and this reason is why Disney and the people involved are magnificent bastards in this regard and why they're ahead in the game.
Not to get political but speaking as a minority myself I consider that the best approach in writing a minority or an LGBTQ character is to write them as a character first. Scratch that. Write them as a person outside of their race, gender, or sexual orientation. Not the label the character goes by. And that is the problem with today's society. Care more about the label than the person underneath the label.
I have read novels and Indy comics that showcase diversity in a positive way, which makes me say to myself"This is why I'm for self-published creations". Cause no matter what type of story an author writes it is their creation.
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