>>21340065Racism existed but people kind of collectively said "we're not going to let the worst of us define each group", people already had a group to hate after 9/11 and the atmosphere was "do what you like as long as you do it over there".
It is the current narrative to retcon the 70s, 80s and 90s to not have existed as they try to insist there were never diversity in movies until it was woke diversity.