As regards casual sexism and racism in Hollywood, feminism and Martin Luther King happened. The entertainment industry stopped pandering to white bigots and recognized that minorities and women were a legitimate part of the audience. The black American actress Whoopi Goldberg tells a story that the first time she saw Nichelle Nichols, the black communications officer on the original Star Trek, on the screen, she ran in to her family shouting, “Ma, come quick! There’s a black lady on TV and she ain’t no maid!” Before that, black people were rare on TV, usually in subservient positions, and never in science fiction.
The entertainment industry has always been populated by liberals because the arts always are, and this applies even when they’re creating works for a conservative audience. I don’t see any prospect of conservatives taking that back unless the nation becomes so right-wing that it starts blacklisting liberals (as it did in the 1950s). At the moment, however, there’s only a limited audience for shows about denying Muslims entry to the United States, regulating the use of public toilets, or blocking access to reproductive health services.
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