History PlayingWith / PoliticallyCorrectHistory

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** The work takes place in a setting is a WretchedHive. One of its very few upsides is that nobody gives a damn about who or what anyone is. Deserters, pirates, murderers, thieves, and traitors prowl the city and everyone knows it. Given the amount of 'bad people' nobody is likely to care about lesser issues like some excommunicated clergy marrying two men even if it would incite a riot in. Besides [[BullyingADragon mocking a pirate captain over liking men is likely to get you stabbed.]]

** Alice is a BlackBestFriend or a MagicalNegro to a white lead

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* '''Deconstructed''': While everything seems peachy at first there but it becomes increasingly clear that something wrong is happening with the timeline. [[AnachronismStew A few anachronisms]] [[OrphanedEtymology and inconsistent names start slipping through]] into society. It turns out that there is a heavy degree of meddling to achieve this tolerant history and it may result in some very nasty side effects....

* '''Deconstructed''': While everything seems peachy at first there but it becomes increasingly clear that something wrong is happening with the timeline. [[AnachronismStew A few anachronisms ]][[OrphanedEtymology and inconsistent names start slipping through]] into society. It turns out that there is a heavy degree of meddling to achieve this tolerant history and it may result in some very nasty side effects....

* '''Deconstructed''': While everything seems peachy at first there but it becomes increasingly clear that something wrong is happening with the timeline. [[GlitchInTheMatrix A few anachronisms ]][[OrphanedEtymology and inconsistent names start slipping through]] into society. It turns out that there is a heavy degree of meddling to achieve this tolerant history and it may result in some very nasty side effects....

** The work is set in the modern days with the viewpoints of the past still unchanged [[DeliberateValueDissonance with all of its flaws]]. Alice is still considered property in an otherwise modern 2017.

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** The work depicts Alice as having lost ''everything'', even implying that she was (somewhat) better off as a slave.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Not only does it feature the above situation, but the main characters are a FiveTokenBand

** DeliberateValuesDissonance: Minorities (be they racial, sexual, religious, or anything else) are just as marginalized in-story as they would be in RealLife.

** It's a true story, or BasedOnATrueStory
** AlternateHistory is in effect.

* '''Averted''': DeliberateValuesDissonance
** Minorities (be they racial, sexual, religious, or anything else) are just as marginalized in-story as they would be in RealLife.
** [[MonochromeCasting The cast consists entirely of]] {{White Male Lead}}s.

** It's an Alternate Reality

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

* '''Averted''':

* '''Defied''': DeliberateValuesDissonance
** People just aren't ready to accept Alice, so they don't buy her dresses... and Alice eventually loses her business and goes back to square one.

* '''Defied''':
** DeliberateValuesDissonance

* '''Defied''': People just aren't ready to accept Alice, so they don't buy her dresses...and Alice eventually loses her business and goes back to square one.

** The work depicts Alice as having lost ''everything'', even [[UnfortunateImplications implying that she was (somewhat) better off as a slave]].

* '''Straight''': A story that takes place in the DeepSouth ''just'' after the AmericanCivilWar depicts Alice, a black woman, running a very successful business. None of the other characters blink.

** Alice is a FishOutOfTemporalWater from the modern era, and time-travels into a ball, where she gets funny looks for the color of her skin and the fact that she's wearing pants instead of a dress.

** She still gets to do things that ''any'' woman at the time, let alone a black woman, would get to do, and she's still very sympathetic to the audience.

** Alice is not very well off at the beginning, but she gets married to Bob, a wealthy white man (who happens to be the son of her owner.)

* '''Basic Trope''': A work that takes place in a different time period has situations and character relations suited to the tastes of modern audiences.

* '''Downplayed''': Some subtle hints that Alice might be [[AmbiguouslyGay a lesbian]] or [[BiTheWay bisexual]] are dropped.

* '''Justified''': Alice just has such a knack for business that no one cares ''what'' color she is or what her genitals look like.

* '''Inverted''': The work depicts Alice as having lost ''everything'', even [[UnfortunateImplications implying that she was (somewhat) better off as a slave]].

* '''Subverted''': Alice is [[TheOldestProfession a brothel madam]]. Most of her girls are young black women, and most of the clients are sleazy white men.

* '''Double Subverted''': She's managed to buy her way into high society, in an era where that would have been extraordinarily difficult for someone like Alice.

* '''Averted''': Minorities (be they racial, sexual, religious, or anything else) are just as marginalized in-story as they would be in RealLife.

* '''Enforced''': PositiveDiscrimination
** "We need to make our HistoricalDrama more palatable to women, gays, Jews, and people of color. Let's put in a RaceLift or something."

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* '''Downplayed''':

* '''Inverted''': The work depicts Alice as having lost ''everything'', even [[UnfortunateImplications implying that she was (somewhat) better off as a slave]].
* '''Subverted''': Alice is [[TheOldestProfession a brothel madam]]. Most of her girls are young black women, and most of the clients are white men.

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