History Main / PoliticallyCorrectHistory

** Even further averted. The film also has 3-D, a member of Biff's gang, say "beat it spook, this doesn't concern you," to Reginald (a black man) after shoving Marty into the trunk of his car. The other three (also black men) of Reginald's band get out of the car and scare the gang off. Spook was an old racist term for African-Americans in the 50's.

* The 1972 musical ''[[SeventeenSeventySix 1776]]'' originally featured a musical number in which the "conservatives" of the Continental Congress express their unwillingness to jeopardize their personal positions and wealth by supporting American independence. Though the song was historically accurate, producer Jack Warner's good friend [[HiliariousInHindsight President Richard Nixon objected to the scene on the basis that it depicted "conservatives" in a negative light]], in spite of the difference in meaning between the term then and now. In an instance of [[ExecutiveMeddling Chief Executive Meddling]], Warner had the sequence removed from the film at Nixon's behest, though a surviving copy can be found on the DVD.

* The 1972 musical ''[[SeventeenSeventySix 1776]]'' originally featured a musical number in which the "conservatives" of the Continental Congress express their unwillingness to jeopardize their personal positions and wealth by supporting American independence. Though the song was historically accurate, producer Jack Warner's good friend President Richard Nixon objected to the scene on the basis that it depicted "conservatives" in a negative light, in spite of the difference in meaning between the term then and now. In an instance of [[ExecutiveMeddling Chief Executive Meddling]], Warner had the sequence removed from the film at Nixon's behest, though a surviving copy can be found on the DVD.

** In relation to [[{{Sequelitis}} Mulan 2, this trope is absolutely present.]] Famed war hero or not, there is no excuse for going against the Emperor's orders and marrying off the princesses to your own soldiers. In fact, even in the most open-minded of Chinese dynasties, something like that wouldn't go over very well. The fact that she managed to be completely pardoned for it, ''and'' be able to give a lecture about how arranged marriage is bad makes the entire film one big Politically Correct History movie.

** In relation to ''Mulan 2'', this trope is absolutely present. Famed war hero or not, there is no excuse for going against the Emperor's orders and marrying off the princesses to your own soldiers. In fact, even in the most open-minded of Chinese dynasties, something like that wouldn't go over very well. The fact that she managed to be completely pardoned for it, ''and'' be able to give a lecture about how arranged marriage is bad makes the entire film one big Politically Correct History movie.

* Heinlein's StrangerInAStrangeLand is about a human man who grew up among genderless Martians returning to Earth, discovering sexuality, and eventually founding a free love cult. As soon as he finds out gender exists, he's adamant that homosexual contact between men is strictly forbidden.

-->'''Captain America''' (upon seeing Morita): "We're rescuing everyone now?"

* In Creator/OrsonScottCard's ''Alvin Maker'' series, the title character is a thinly veiled portrait of Joseph Smith, founder of the LDS, Card's faith. He's portrayed as TheParagon and the issue of polygamy is dealt with by stating that any women claiming to be married to him other than his first wife are either deluded or being put up to it by his enemies (in actual fact his plural marriages to women, along with theological sanction for them, are well recorded).

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfTanks'' includes the following.

--> ...And when the last red man shall have perished...the streets of your cities and villages...will throng with the returning hosts that once filled and still love this beautiful land. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not altogether powerless.

** This is actually TruthInTelevision, more or less. Modern-day intelligence requires prospective employees to let them know if they are in the closet, for precisely that reason, so they can guage the security risk. (Of course when it was illegal, being openly gay was still a blackmail risk. See Guy Burgess, one of the Cambridge Five for an example.)

* VideoGame/TeamFortress2 features one class, The Demoman, who is black (albeit Scottish). Considering that the game takes place in the 60's, the other characters seem uncharacteristically accepting of him. Even The Soldier, who is known to be a closed-minded jarhead, is best friends with him. Same goes for women; The Announcer is basically [[MeanBoss the boss of all the mercenaries.]]
** Mind you, this particular universe is certainly ''not'' historically accurate by any stretch of the imagination, and really not supposed to be. Especially when Australia is a nation of [[GeniusBruiser macho mustached geniuses]], magic exists, Shakesphere and Picasso were known to be badasses (among other historical figures), hell, the entire game takes place in a WorldOfBadass. [[RuleOfFun Nothing in the game is really meant to be taken seriously, anyway.]]

* Sometimes-averted-sometimes-not in ''[[Series/{{MASH}} M* A* S* H]]''. Black people are referred to by the historically correct term "Negroes" on the show, even by the good guys. However, later episodes gave Major Houlihan second-wave feminist views, even though the show is set more than ten years before ''The Feminine Mystique'' was first published. You could chalk this up to Houlihan being ahead of her time, except that the episode "Inga", written by Alan Alda as [[WriterOnBoard a love letter to the feminist movement]], seems to have all the characters acting as though the 1970s women’s movement already happened, breaking any illusion that the show is really set in the early 1950s. (That episode won an Emmy, of course.) There's also the black Dr. Jones, who was {{Brother Chuck}}ed halfway through the first season, supposedly because the producers discovered that no black doctors served in the Korean War (they were wrong: the real M*A*S*H unit that was the basis of the original novel and by proxy the series itself had a black surgeon among its medical staff). However, it was played as a joke that he was nicknamed "Spearchucker" because he threw the javelin in college. Of course, it was also tongue in cheek, in that everyone knew it also had racial connotations. In another episode, Hawkeye permanently turns down imminent sex with a beautiful woman, because she complains about "those gooks (Koreans) marrying our (white) people." He gives her a speech as well. In another episode, Hawkeye "schools" a redneck soldier who complains about getting a transfusion of "black blood," by painting him brown and claiming that he ordered watermelon for dinner, ''etc''.

** And then we have Djaq, who is at least given a reason why an Arabic Muslim woman would be in Medieval England. However, after her introductory episode almost no one remarks upon the fact that a) she's obviously not English, b) she's not a Christian in a time and place where that would be unimaginable, c) she's a woman who dresses and acts like a man, and d) she's of a nation who the King of England is currently fighting

** TruthInTelevision considering Samuel Fields was a real person.

** Also, Grant is visibly impressed with Allison, a half-black woman dressed as a nurse, who seems to know advanced medical techniques (for 1940s).

** In "The Fighter," black boxer Joe Kegan goes up against locl white men in almost every fight. The only time race is mentioned is when he explains to Charles that the reason he got into boxing is so he could punch white men without getting "hung." No one ever mentions his race, not even when he and his manager are renting a room.

** Moseby's race might not have been as much of a problem in the 1700s, if he was a freedman (this was pre-cotton gin). [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Fraunces]] Sam Fraunces, a Revolutionary War-era tavern owner, may have been black.

-->'''Nixon''': Ah. I think the Moon's far enough for now, don't you, Mr Delaware?

** Class prejudice, though seemingly absent in the younger generation, is something that a few of the characters have to overcome in order to [[InterClassRomance get married or at any rate get the approval of their parents or guardians]]. At one point [[EvilMatriarch Aunt Agatha]] tries to get Bertie to buy off his uncle’s working class girlfriend

** The show points out the some aristocrats were attracted to Fascism in the interwar years. Though most of the characters find would be dictator [[ThoseWackyNazis Roderick Spode]] ridiculous he has his own movement and his idea about drowning foreigners coming into Britain was a big hit with the inhabitants of Totleigh on the Would

** This is actually [[TruthInTelevision]], more or less. Modern day intelligence requires prospective employees to let them know if they are in the closet, for precisely that reason, so they can guage the security risk. (Of course when it was illegal, being openly gay was still a blackmail risk. See Guy Burgess, one of the Cambridge Five for an example.)
* In the Christian MiddleAges, legends and epics about old-time heroes often recast their protagonists as Christians, even if in their time and place they clearly would have been pagan. ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'', for example, has Beowulf and Hrothgar invoke God, even though 6th century Scandinavia was untouched by Christianity.
* In Creator/OrsonScottCard's ''Alvin Maker'' series, the title character is a thinly veiled portrait of Joseph Smith, founder of the LDS. He's portrayed as TheParagon and the issue of polygamy is dealt with by stating that any women claiming to be married to him other than his first wife are either deluded or being put up to it by his enemies.

* An episode of ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' featured {{Batman}}, WonderWoman, and GreenLantern [[TimeTravel chasing]] a MadScientist back to the WildWest, where they disguised themselves as law enforcers. Nobody they met saw anything odd about a woman or a black man as a lawperson. Though this might be an unintended aversion as there ''were'' black lawmen and cowboys at the time but they sort of faded out of the limelight until recently.

* Ryan West's ''Literature/TheRiseOfTheSaxons'' makes a point out of averting this, with the Anglo-Saxons portrayed as cheerfully murdering defenceless children during their attempted genocide of the Celts, whom they view as "sub-humans" and "vermin". The fact that the author's afterword identifies the novel as an attempt to honour the Anglo-Saxons in a way which will make the modern English proud has led [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/RND1CASILBKVS/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1438924003&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag= certain]] [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/RPE78N7R79DIP/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1438924003&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag= readers]] [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R37H8U1CI1EX3V/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1438924003&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag= to]] [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R4IEW9LA6ERV6/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1438924003&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag= question]] his political leanings.

** The Nixon episode also subverts it; one of the Doctor's allies is an ex-CIA agent who was sacked because he wants to get married. Later he and Nixon have this exchange:

See also PopularHistory, FairForItsDay, VideogameHistoricalRevisionism, EternalSexualFreedom, AluminumChristmasTrees, WeAllLiveInAmerica, AmericaWinsTheWar, BlackVikings, HistoricalHeroUpgrade, HistoricalVillainUpgrade, and HistoricalVillainDowngrade. Contrast DeliberateValuesDissonance.

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* Inverted in ''{{Mulan}}'', of all the [[DisneyAnimatedCanon surprising places]]. In the original Chinese folktale, Mulan is an [[MarySue almost all-powerful figure]] who gets away with practically ''everything,'' despite being a woman -- this in a time where [[NoWomansLand being a girl]] was... not so much fun. In the Disney version, the simple repercussions of her merely being female are treated more seriously. For example, in the original story, when she reveals herself to be a woman, everyone in the army is totally cool with it. In the DisneyAnimatedCanon version? She is automatically declared a traitor, is spared death only because the army captain [[IOweYouMyLife Owes Her His Life]], and is abandoned in the mountains to meet whatever fate may come to her despite the fact that she's injured. ''Mulan 2'', however, plays it straight when Mulan goes on a crusade against arranged marriage. Well, she was by then a famed war hero. Granted, traditions and societies are very resistant to change, especially in a country as all-fired huge as China.
** Mind, the original Mulan had been their general for a while and saved the empire by literal force of arms and stuff ''already'' by the time she voluntarily revealed herself. This probably helped, but does not make a suitably dramatic story.
** Mulan was actually [[http://www.bigscreen.com/ReaderReview.php?movie=Mulan criticized for taking this too far]], as in this time period women were not as oppressed as would become the norm in later dynasties (beginning with the Ming Dynasty), and there was [[AintNoRule no law in China]] prescribing death to women impersonating a man to serve in the military, nor was that part of the original story. It was added by Disney for dramatic purposes.
** In relation to ''Mulan 2'', this trope is absolutely present. Famed war hero or not, there is no excuse for going against the Emperor's orders and marrying off the princesses to your own soldiers. In fact, even in the most open-minded of Chinese dynasties, something like that wouldn't go over very well. The fact that she managed to be completely pardoned for it, ''and'' be able to give a lecture about how arranged marriage is bad makes the entire film one big PoliticallyCorrectHistory movie.

* The Disney-esque ''{{Anastasia}}'' shows the Tsars as benevolent, white-hat rulers and their rule as a time of prosperity. Their downfall was caused not by a popular uprising but by a "spark of unhappiness" sent across Russia by evil magician Rasputin.
** This is played in contrast to how terrible and cold Russia became under the Soviets, with the citizens of St. Peterburg singing literally "oh since the Revolution, our lives have been so grey!" Not that the consequences of Soviet policies weren't hell on the people, but the countryside suffered worse than the cities.

* Averted in many ways in BelisariusSeries. However sometimes they do seem far more tolerant of religious, ethnic, and class differences then early medieval people really would be.

* Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog: The color barrier that existed in New Orleans in the 20s is virtually ignored, to the extent that a rich white man seems to have no problem with his daughter marrying and African, even if he is a Prince.

* Somewhat averted in ''IncredibleHercules'', in which most of the characters from ClassicalMythology whom Hercules and his young teenage SideKick Amadeus Cho run into assume that they are having sex, even though they aren't.

*** It should be noted that while low-cut dresses were a big no-no, veils weren't actually nearly as ubiquitous in this time period as you would think. They were mainly used by wealthier women who could afford slaves to do manual labour for them, but were far too complicated and pricey garments for peasant women who had to do housework and help their husbands in the fields.