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* Subverted in the 90s ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' cartoon, where a time-traveling ComicBook/{{Storm}} is told she is not welcome in a restaurant. At first, she thinks it's because she is a mutant, then once she realizes it's because she's black, she says that discrimination by race is almost quaint.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Lightyear}}'', Buzz's commander, Alisha Hawthorne, is openly a lesbian, who is seen HappilyMarried to another woman, kissing her on-screen, and even raising a family with her. Within the context of the movie alone, this isn't an example, as the setting is hundreds of years in the future, but the film is also said to exist within the ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' universe, where it came out in 1995 at the latest and was marketed towards younger audiences. During TheNineties, it would be ''very'' radical and improbable for a family movie to portray a same-sex couple in a positive light.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Lightyear}}'', Buzz's commander is openly a lesbian, who is seen HappilyMarried to another woman, kissing her, and even raising a family with her. Within the context of the movie alone, this isn't an example, as the setting is hundreds of years in the future, but the film is also said to exist within the ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' universe, where it came out in 1995 and was marketed towards younger audiences. During TheNineties, it would be ''very'' radical and improbable for a family movie to portray a same-sex couple in a positive light.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Lightyear}}'' is an odd example in that it isn't set on Earth or in the past. The film is said to be a movie within the ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' universe that came out in 1995, yet features a positive depiction of a same-sex couple, which would most likely be too radical for a family-targeted film during this time period to show.

* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'', a time travel episode to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII features Caucasian, Asian and African American soldiers all in the same company. It also features a handlebar mustached ''Führer'', who, while clearly intended to be Hitler, isn't. Strangest. Censorship. Ever.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'': The movie is set in the 1920s New Orleans, but it's outlook is brighter and kinder than how it was in real life. Old South attitudes are still present, but are gently handled: Tiana and her mother sit in the back of the trolley and live in a segregated neighborhood. However, Big Daddy [=LeBouf=], a white rich man, has no qualms eating at a black-owned diner, or with his daughter marrying a Latin(ish) royal (though they could simply be the exception to the rule), and [[spoiler:Tiana's]] restaurant proudly serves and employs people of all races. The closest thing to actual DeliberateValuesDissonance is a CompressedVice with the realtors. In the costume party scene, they announce Tiana that they are selling the sugar mill Tiana wants to buy, and are very condescending towards her in a combination of racism and sexism at the idea of a black woman running a restaurant.

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' [[spoiler:with Philip Wittebane/Emperor Belos, who was a white British settler in the New World stranded in the Boiling Isles in the 1600s. While his journal entries Luz reads seems to indicate he grew to love the Demon Realm despite its horrors like she did, in "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", when Luz and Lilith travel back in time to meet him, it's revealed he's a racist ass who hates witches because he hasn't let go of his seventeenth-century mindset. "Hollow Mind" goes even further by revealing that he ''still'' identifies as a witch hunter centuries afterwards, and in fact his ascent to power and the Day of Unity was all a very-long gambit to wipe out the Boiling Isles to save humanity. This is [[{{Hypocrite}} despite him altering his body with magic to survive to the point that even many of the witches we see like Eda, Amity, Willow, and Gus resemble humans more than he does.]] He's also heavily hinted to have killed his own brother for letting go of the anti-witch beliefs and falling in love with one.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Lightyear}}'' is an odd example in that it isn't set on Earth or in the past. The film is said to be a movie within the ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' universe that came out in 1995, yet features a positive depiction of a same-sex couple, which would be too radical for a family-targeted film during this time period to show.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Lightyear}}'' is said to be a movie within the ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' universe that came out in 1995. While it isn't set on Earth or in the past, the film does feature a positive depiction of a same-sex couple, which would be too radical for a family-targeted film during this time period to show.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Lightyear}}'' is said to be a movie within the ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' universe that came out in 1995. While it isn't set on Earth or in the past, it has a same-sex couple that would be radical for the time period.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Lightyear}}'' is an odd example, in that it's technically not set on Earth. The premise is that this is a movie within the ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' universe in 1995, yet has a same-sex couple that would be radical for the time period.

* ''Music/{{Skyclad}}'' "[[DiscussedTrope discussed]]" (if using a bloody axe counts) attempts to gloss over less-than-pretty moments in a song aptly named "[[LieBackAndThinkOfEngland Think Back And Lie Of England]]".

* In the young adult book ''Literature/{{After}}'' by Francine Prose, the school slowly starts to try to brainwash the students. One of the protagonist's friends points out that the documentary playing on the bus that day is on World War II, and was stating that the atom bombs were dropped on Japanese ''wilderness areas''. He says, "Dude, Listen to that. I don't think that's true." followed by another friend asking, "How stupid ''were'' we?"

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Lightyear}}'' is an odd example, in that it's technically set in the future. Although it's said to be an 80's-era movie that got Andy from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' interested in a Buzz Lightyear toy in 1995, it has a same-sex couple that would be radical for the time.

->''What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history? A fable agreed upon.''

->''"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte'''

* ''Series/WhyWomenKill'':
** Nobody bats an eye at Dee and Vern being together, or saying that they are. In reality, at the time in California attitudes were so violently racist toward interracial couples that even Creator/SammyDavisJr, a popular celebrity, had to marry a Black woman to protect himself from mob violence for having a White girlfriend. That said, Vern does deal with street harassment for his race and Alma condescends to him on her meeting with him, asking him if he works in blue-collar jobs.
** Averted when it comes to slut-shaming and victim blaming (Rita) or how the LGBT+ community was out of the mainstream or in the closet.

** A similar thing can be said about the original series, ''Series/OnceUponATime''. The Enchanted Forest appears to be somewhat medieval, although the lands of story exist parallel to the Land Without Magic, allowing for example several residents of Camelot to be played by people of colour.

* Both ComicBook/NickFury's ComicBook/HowlingCommandos and ComicBook/SgtRock's Easy Company included [[TokenMinority one]] African-American soldier. In RealLife the US armed forces weren't racially integrated until 1948. Eventually justified, at least in the Howling Commandos; they're a special unit hand-picked by Fury himself. If he thinks an African-American soldier is a good addition to his line-up, the military isn't going to tell him no. Per WordOfGod, one of the intentions when creating the Howling Commandos was to include as many minorities as possible, so readers could confront any prejudices they might have against any of those ethnicities. Creator/StanLee even threw in a CampStraight. Partly an example of RealityIsUnrealistic. Black soldiers actually served in integrated rifle companies as early as 1945. Still the entire US military was not integrated until 1948. Heck, Gen. UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower selectively integrated some black soldiers into his forces in 1944 in real life (he was running low on men, but even then, his aides advised strongly against it), so a small force with a leader as respected as Rock or Fury should have been able to do the same.

* ''WesternAnimation/ParaNorman'' takes this trope and [[DefiedTrope shoots it in the head]], buries it in a shallow grave, and digs it up just to shoot it a second time. [[spoiler: Although never openly addressed as such, the Puritan town leaders are driven by their religious fundamentalism to ''[[MoralEventHorizon executing a]] [[WouldHurtAChild twelve-year old girl]]'' on suspected charges of witchcraft just because she talks to ghosts. Granted, she ''was'' a witch, but the movie never budges an inch on the fact that fear motivated religious fanaticism causes basically everything that happens in the story.]]

* ''Comicbook/GoldieVance'' is set in 1960s Florida, but the subjects of racism and homophobia almost never come up. This is particularly notable in the way that Goldie, an African-American, openly pursues a relationship with a Japanese-American girl named Diane, and nobody bats an eye.

For other uses of the term politically correct, see PoliticalIncorrectness and PoliticalCorectnessIsEvil.

For other uses of the term politically correct, see PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad.

* ''Film/SongOfTheSouth'' features a sanitized version of the post-[[UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar Civil War]] Deep South, something that people often critize.

** Despite the fact that the games are set in events central to Jewish history -- the Crusades, the Renaissance, the French Revolution -- none of the major games feature Jewish [=NPCs=] or supporting characters in any of the playable main and side missions, with barely any mention to the institutional and systemic anti-semitism operating in this time[[note]]The exceptions are the presence of the wooden Synagogue in Jerusalem in the first game and some of the missions in Assassin's Den in ''Brotherhood'' and ''Revelations'', none of which are playable by the main character[[/note]]. Likewise, the depiction of Rome in ''Assassin's Creed Brotherhood'' does not have the famous Jewish quarter, filled with refugees from Spain and France, patronized by the Borgia's support. It took until ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'' for the series to feature major Jewish [=NPC=]s -- Creator/KarlMarx and UsefulNotes/BenjaminDisraeli.

* Discussed in-universe in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E15BaddaBingBaddaBang Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang]]", in which Sisko, who is black, is annoyed at the popularity of Vic's holosuite program, which gives a politically-correct depiction of 1962 Las Vegas which leaves out the 1960s USA's racial segregation. Sisko points out that in real 1962 Vegas, neither he nor his also-black girlfriend would have been allowed into the casino except as performers or menial staff members. She argues however that it's defensible as being how that era ''should'' have been in reality. It's also somewhat justified, as Vic is a blatant expy of Music/FrankSinatra, who was way ahead of his time when it came to race relations. His entire group would boycott hotels who didn't desegregate.