For just the text of Dr. Siren's thread
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1568 ... 75265.html
Good video discussing Dr. Thala Siren's explanation of the newer marketing strategy of fan-baiting. As Siren points out the intention IS to exact comments from a tiny minority of actual bigots to use as an excuse to dismiss legitimate criticism of plots, scripts, acting etc as all racist, phobic or hating. Its basically stuffing a cat into a bag of dogs and using the result as a tool.
The Little Mermaid pilot is a good example. The actress is being set up by the studio to take the heat for this tactic. The studio does this swap intentionally to get free marketing and interest and to be able to dismiss any criticism as racism.“Fan-baiting” works. It brings in a new sympathetic audience whose endorsement is more about taking a public stance against prejudice than any real interest in the art. “Fan-baiting” also permits studios to cultivate public skepticism over the legitimacy of poor reviews. 8/10
Basically this is NOT about diversity. This is about typical corporate greed and using POC, women and LGBT as meat shields and props. This helps no one since now the well is poisoned and any POC, woman and LGBT will be questioned vs accepted and liked.
Any time a corporation does something like diversity or environmentalism or dealing with race issues, there is NO ALTRUISM. Its always about corporate greed. And worse, its about them avoiding something else. Diversity and inclusion masks insane profits and the lack of wealth redistribution. Fan baiting masks bad writing and being cheap on writers and plots and not following lore. Environmentalism masks them polluting somewhere else or trying to gate keep competitors. If corporations joined your fight.... you're being scammed.