Line #79 Main/OffendingTheCreatorsOwn


1	->''"Far from lampooning the Left, ''Carol'' insults conservatives by presuming that they are so simple as to be won over by fat jokes and flatulence."''
2	-->-- '''Michael Brendan Doherty''' on ''Film/AnAmericanCarol''
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4	Something is released to the public, and something in it offends a group of people; say, for instance, members of a certain religion. They might call in to complain and express their distaste, but there's a twist: the creator of the work ''is also a devout member of that religion!''
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6	Why would this happen? Differences in opinion and approach, typically. While people can often agree on harmful stereotypes, what constitutes [[PositiveDiscrimination a positive depiction may still be viewed as a stereotype]]. Maybe this practitioner has a particular social circle where this is acceptable and even an acknowledged in-joke, not realizing others would see it a problem. Or maybe they did realize there would be a problem, and plowed ahead because they felt [[HardTruthAesop an uncomfortable observation was needed]]. The point is, that while works must be judged on their own qualities, the personal background of an author can serve to make an accusation of bias or hostility more complex to unravel. And in a world where the differences, both real and imaginary, make interaction all the more complicated, that's saying something.
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8	While this trope isn't limited to religious satire, it often finds a home here. Many critics will ask why the creator doesn't mock or criticize any other religion, and the reason is simple familiarity. The creator has intimate knowledge of their own faith from a lifetime of hearing its doctrines. This is doubly true if the other religion is a stark minority in their country. FairForItsDay can also be at work, where something considered bold and progressive at the time it was released has gone to be seen as harmful, if not making such stereotypes iconic.
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10	For the record, it is just as condescending to presume all members of a group must share the same opinions about what is offensive, as to presume that anyone who offers a harsh depiction of a group must be an outsider: that's the same logic that leads people to argue that something isn't offensive to a group because they have a friend from that group who's okay with it. And that way lies madness.
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12	Note that intentionally mocking your own group, particularly for comedic reasons, is SelfDeprecation (sometimes overlapping with NWordPrivileges), a different trope. May result from PoesLaw. Compare UnwantedAssistance, StopBeingStereotypical. Note that this may not stop those most offended from branding the creator in question as a CategoryTraitor and/or BoomerangBigot, wrongfully or otherwise. The inverse is MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales, where a depiction of a group of people by an outsider that some might consider stereotypical or negative is nevertheless embraced by real members of that group. Compare MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting, where the creator is offending their own country.
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20	* [[https://abcnews.com/amp/Business/unilevers-dove-drops-nj-armpit-ad/story?id=22769673 A billboard advertising Dove deodorant]] sparked controversy in UsefulNotes/NewJersey due to it saying "Dear New Jersey, when people call you [[{{Joisey}} 'The Armpit of America,']] [[ComplimentBackfire take it as a compliment]]." The intent was to say that armpits can be nice, even beautiful, instead of smelly (given that it's advertising deodorant and all), but it backfired badly, and the ad was pulled. Unilever, the company that owns Dove, has its North American HQ in New Jersey -- Englewood Cliffs, specifically.[[note]]Unilever as a whole is an Anglo-Dutch company with joint world headquarters in UsefulNotes/{{London}} and Rotterdam, but the American subsidiary is very large and is usually granted a bit of independence from Europe.[[/note]]
21	* The popular "Beatie" adverts for British Telecom (later BT) from the late Eighties to the mid Nineties was criticised by elderly Jewish women, who felt the character was not a good depiction of them. This is despite the fact that actress Creator/MaureenLipman, who played the character, is Jewish herself.
22	* Mia, the iconic "IndianMaiden" mascot who was depicted in the packaging for Land O'Lakes butter for 92 years, was dropped in 2020 by the brand themselves, citing perceived ValuesDissonance as the reason due to her being widely seen nowadays as a racist stereotype of Native American women and the decision was commended by some Native advocates such as Peggy Flanagan, Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota and a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe. This becomes ironic when you consider that the person who redesigned her into her iconic look in TheFifties, Patrick [=DesJarlait=], was an Ojibwe Native American himself and his son Robert has been [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/29/my-ojibwe-father-drew-land-olakes-maiden-she-was-never-stereotype/ critical of]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20201211221448/https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/there-s-another-story-behind-that-land-o-lakes-butter-box-v-QWAwVzCUCmHEs3OmHTdA the decision]] about it, refuting claims about her being either a stereotype or offensive towards Native women.
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26	* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesXY'': Serena is a very divisive character, with many of her detractors ([[AmericansHateTingle particularly in the west]]) decrying her and Pokémon Showcases for playing into [[Main/NonActionGuy outdated]] [[RealWomenDontWearDresses stereotypes]] regarding women. In reality, [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Category:Episodes_written_by_Akemi_Omode most of Serena's focus episodes]] are written by Akemi Omode who is a woman. In addition, Omode wrote either the script or screenplay for every episode containing a Pokémon Showcase.
27	* Many critics of ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}'' accuse the series of being sexist, with its extreme {{fanservice}} and [[TheDitz ditzy]] female characters. The writer, Sakurako Gokurakuin, is a woman.
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31	* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_and_The_Madness_of_Truth ''Snow White and The Madness of Truth'']] was a Swedish art-installation about suicide bombing that caused a lot of controversy. It was accused of being antisemitic and glorifying suicide bombers, and eventually the Israeli ambassador to Sweden personally went to vandalize the installation. The artist behind the installation, Dror Feiler, is an Israeli-born Jewish man, though being Jewish and Israeli-born is no reason not to support [[FridgeLogic other]] [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch views]].
32	* Cartoonist Robert "Buck" Brown did a great many cartoons for ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'', many featuring his Granny character. Others had to do with race relations, in a humorous way. One, which featured a soul food restaurant in the inner city called "Sho 'Nuff Boss Chow", started a firestorm of protest alleging that he was a racist. Brown was African-American.
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36	* ''ComicBook/MsMarvel2014'': In the "Crushed" arc, G. Willow Wilson being herself a Muslim did not prevent a minority of readers from arguing that [[spoiler:Kamala's boyfriend-until-he-showed-his-true-colours Kamran being a member of Lineage's villainous Inhuman gang and trying to force Kamala into it]] encouraged views of Muslim men as evil and abusive towards women. Despite the fact that the comic includes many male Muslim characters who are neither and that [[spoiler:[[WrongGuyFirst "first boyfriend turns out to be evil" as a metaphor for sexually-exploitative teenage boys]]]] has been a trope in stories about teenage girl heroes for a long time.
37	* Some Canadian Marvel fans weren't fond of ''ComicBook/AlphaFlight'', finding them to be not representative of their country despite the fact that creator Creator/JohnByrne is Canadian himself, albeit a naturalised citizen, as he was born in the United Kingdom but moved to Canada when he was eight.
38	* The FreakyFridayFlip that turned ''[[Characters/MarvelComicsPsylocke Psylocke (Betsy Braddock)]]'' from a relatively wholesome Caucasian Brit to a very sexualized Japanese ninja. It was odd back then, but dismissed as just comic stuff that's par for the course. Today, it would've likely raised a vocal backlash. After so many years, people just accepted it, and that in itself created a multitude of hurdles. However, Creator/JimLee, the man who wanted to [[RuleOfSexy draw her as a sexy ninja chick]], is himself ethnically East Asian (albeit Korean American).
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42	* One early ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'' Sunday strip featured Pig eating in an absolutely ''filthy'' Greek restaurant where the staff spoke broken English. Greeks and Greek-Americans were not happy. The author, Stephan Pastis, is himself Greek-American.
43	-->'''Restaurant owner:''' Yasou, pig... Georgios, he drop you gyro behind stove, but ees okay, becose Yanni can reach with mop...
44	** To give more details, when the strip was reprinted in a treasury, Pastis added this comment:
45	--->'''Pastis:''' This June 9th strip was my first experience with reader outrage. I thought that I could get away with it [[NWordPrivileges because I was Greek]]. That was not the case. Greeks everywhere complained. While I wouldn't do it again, I still maintain that everyone is just a wee bit too sensitive these days.
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49	%% * WordOfGod is that the author of ''Fanfic/AngelOfTheBat'' wanted to get some Catholic readers really excited about the story before [[spoiler:revealing the main character was a lesbian-leaning bisexual]]. It was done to make a statement about a matter of religious reform, despite the author's own Catholicism. To his slight disappointment but largely his approval, his readership never expressed a problem with it.
50	* If one interprets ''Fanfic/HogwartsSchoolOfPrayerAndMiracles'' as being genuine, many Christian readers were upset with how the religion was portrayed in the work. Not the part where God instantly makes things appear when asked and can teleport people, but the StayInTheKitchen values of the good characters, even the women, and how the heroes openly derided atheists and anyone not from their own brand of Christianity.
51	* One of the criticisms autistic readers levelled against ''Fanfic/TwilightPrettyCure'' was that the author, who is autistic herself, portrayed the autistic character Riko in an offensively stereotypical way, as well as appearing to condone the behaviour of those who picked on Riko because of her autism. The author replied that she hadn't realised her portrayal of Riko was problematic, and set out to rewrite the story to fix this and other controversial elements, but ultimately abandoned it. However, she appears to have learned her lesson as the autistic characters in her subsequent fanfics (such as Julia in ''Fanfic/PokemonAMarvelousJourney'' and Mary in ''Fanfic/TheSunWillComeUpAndTheSeasonsWillChange'') do not embody such stereotypes and have therefore been better received.
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55	* A small number of Scots (mainly Scots-Americans of distant Scottish ancestry) condemned ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'' for containing what they considered offensive ethnic caricatures (and for overshadowing the native Scottish-made film ''WesternAnimation/SirBilli'') despite the number of well-known Scottish actors who happily did voices for it. Conversely, [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales Scotland as a whole embraced the movie wholeheartedly]].
56	* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'':
57	** Director Tony Leondis, who is openly gay, once compared the main character Gene's struggles with showing off his face-changing ability with how gay men struggle with coming out in real life. However, the fact that Gene [[spoiler:nearly got the phone factory reset because of his ability, plus the fact that he ''inherited'' the ability from his father,]] made the whole metaphor come across to many as insulting towards those in the LGBT community.
58	** The lead female character, Jailbreak, has been met with widespread mockery and apathy by many feminists despite her plotline and motivations advocating strongly for women's issues. Some would say ''[[{{Anvilicious}} too]]'' [[{{Anvilicious}} strongly]]. The fact that the plot breaks the character's pro-feminism aesop [[BrokenAesop cleanly in half]], combined with a common perception of Jailbreak as being placed in the movie solely for [[PanderingToTheBase brownie points]], left the movie with a pro-feminist character for whom 90% of feminists didn't bite, [[DontShootTheMessage including ones who agreed with what the creators were trying to say with her character]].
59	* In ''WesternAnimation/KillerBeanForever'', FinalBoss Jet Bean is a martial arts assassin and East Asian stereotype who speaks mangled English with a thick Chinese accent. Two side characters working at a restaurant in Jet's first scene are similarly stereotypical, and at one point later in the film, a cop makes a few racist remarks toward Jet and imitates his accent (though this one is more fair, because a racist character, [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain especially an antagonist]], doesn't necessarily equal a racist creator). It probably wouldn't successfully [[CrossesTheLineTwice cross the line twice]] if not for the fact that Jeff Lew, who made the film nearly single-handedly, is of Chinese descent himself and personally voices all four of the offending characters.
60	* ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'': Ernie and Bernie have been criticized as [[SpaceJews offensive stereotypes of Jamaicans]], due to their bells and tentacles looking like dreadlocks and rasta caps, sounding like they're stoned, and singing {{reggae}} songs. Ernie is voiced by the Jamaican Ziggy Marley (son of [[Music/BobMarley Bob]]), while Bernie's voice actor Doug E. Doug is of partial Jamaican descent.
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64	* ''Film/Adam2019'' was accused of transphobia as its premise revolved around a cis boy attempting to pass off as a trans boy to deceive a lesbian girl, even though director Rhys Ernst is himself a trans man. It should be noted that much of this criticism derives from [[https://www.themarysue.com/adam-movie-ariel-schrag-book-not-lgbtqa-friendly/ the original novel by Ariel Schrag]], which has been accused of being full of racist, homophobic, and transphobic elements.
65	* Director Alejandro Amenábar is an [[UsefulNotes/{{Atheism}} atheist]], which can be felt in the strongly anti-religion (and anti-Christian in particular) message on his film ''Film/{{Agora}}''. However, the result actually left many Spanish atheists discontent, as the film happened to build its message over a pile of convenient historical deviations from the real events it portrays, where the whole religious factor was actually very minor.
66	* Many conservatives did not actually like the right-wing comedy film ''Film/AnAmericanCarol'' by conservative filmmaker David Zucker because they found it condescending towards its imagined Republican audience.
67	* ''Literature/AmericanPsycho'': Like the novel, the film adaptation was also controversial for its violence towards women, yet the director and writers of the film, Mary Harron (director/writer) and Guinevere Turner (writer), are women. They made conscious decisions that project the female influence on this adaption. The film changes the focus from purely Bateman's perspective to showcase the faces of the women at certain scenes.
68	* For all the accusations of sexism leveled at ComicBook/BlackWidow's death in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', it can be surprising to learn that it was only after the advice of several ''female'' crew members, particularly visual effects producer [[https://web.archive.org/web/20210706173510/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/movies/avengers-endgame-questions-and-answers.html Jen Underdahl]] that they decided to kill her as opposed to Hawkeye, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen who was originally going to sacrifice himself to obtain the Soul Stone]].
69	* Creator/MelBrooks has occasionally been accused of being antisemitic. ''Film/ToBeOrNotToBe'' in particular attracted this criticism. Brooks is, of course, Jewish (and a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII veteran to boot), and never fails to include Jewish references and BorschtBelt-style jokes in his films.
70	* The InNameOnly portrayal of [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra Cain]] in ''Film/{{Birds of Prey\|2020}}'' as a pre-teen street urchin who is able to speak normally, has no powers or training, has none of her comics version's ironclad morals, and spends the film as a LivingMacGuffin, has received condemnation from fans -- Asian and non-Asian -- as a betrayal of her comic incarnation, who's seen as one of the best Asian-American superhero comic characters. Both director Cathy Yan and writer Christina Hodson are of Asian descent themselves.
71	* The Music/{{Queen\|Band}} biopic ''Film/BohemianRhapsody'' received controversy over the its alleged homophobia, with it being accused of downplaying Music/FreddieMercury's bisexuality, associating his man-on-man sexual activities with psychological dysfunction, and treating his death from AIDS as "punishment" for not being straight. The movie's director, Creator/BryanSinger, is openly bisexual and has admitted to treating the ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men]]'' movies [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything as if they were gay rights allegories]].
72	* The character of ''Film/{{Borat}}'' often makes antisemitic remarks, but the actor who plays him, Creator/SachaBaronCohen, is a Jewish man himself. In fact, his fake "Kazakh" language is actually Hebrew. Baron Cohen has stated that the character's purpose is to mock antisemites. The Kazakhs didn't appreciate being used as the foil, however, especially since the movie implies that Borat's prejudices are the norm in Kazakhstan, though they eventually grew to love the film enough to use Borat's "Very nice!" catchphrase [[https://www.npr.org/2020/10/27/928164595/very-nice-kazakhstan-outraged-no-more-embraces-borat-in-new-slogan as a tourism slogan]].
73	* Some people complained that the ''Film/BridgeToTerabithia'' movie supposedly contained messages mocking Christians. One character questions whether {{God}} would go around damning people to {{Hell}}, and another character says that an atheist girl would go to heaven after death for having been a good person, in spite of not being a Christian. The author of the book on which the movie is based ''is'' a Christian, though apparently a more moderate or liberal one than the Christians she offended with her open message. In fact, the author's parents were missionaries to China, and the author herself is married to a Presbyterian minister; moreover, many of the issues that caused offense are actual live debates in Christian theology, with there being serious arguments on both sides firmly rooted in logic and in Scripture. Furthermore, the film's backer, media mogul Phillip Anschutz, is an outspoken conservative Christian.
74	* ''Film/CountryStrong'' was criticized for being sexist towards women. And yet it was written and directed by a woman.
75	* The highly controversial film ''Film/{{Cuties}}'', by Maïmouna Doucouré, has been accused, among other things, of [[https://religionunplugged.com/news/2020/9/8/netflixs-cuties-accused-of-anti-islamic-message-sexualizing-young-girls being Islamophobic and of attacking Muslims]], despite the fact that Doucouré is the daughter of Muslim immigrants from Senegal, although she herself does not appear to be particularly religious.
76	* Some Roman Catholics protested against Creator/KevinSmith's ''Film/{{Dogma}}'' as blasphemy. Smith is a practicing Roman Catholic himself, though his personal beliefs are not completely typical of the church. Smith pranked the protesters by joining their ranks for a photo-op, portraying himself as particularly ignorant, saying he'd never even seen the film.
77	* ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'', while already controversial for replacing the beloved cast of the original, drew some controversy for depicting all of its male characters as either dumb or antagonistic, or both. The film's co-writer and director Paul Feig is a man.
78	* ''Film/GodsNotDead'' was a Creator/PureFlix propoganda film made [[PreachingToTheChoir by Christians for a Christian Audience]]. However, ''many'' of the film's biggest detractors are themselves Christians who lambasted the film for its [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic unintentional]] [[DesignatedHero negative]] portrayal of devout Christians; such as the religious main-character being a [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]], [[LackOfEmpathy unempathetic]], [[HolierThanThou priggish]] [[{{Jerkass}} asshole]], and two Ministers happily calling a man's violent death a "cause for celebration" simply because he converted to Christianity in his dying breaths... which they persuaded him to do as he was lying mortally injured on the ground instead of doing the Christian Thing in helping the man and calling an ambulance.
79	* ''Film/TheKingsSpeech'' was written by a stammerer, just like its title character. While many stammerers lauded it for giving much-needed exposition to the worst side of their condition, others felt the film still falls in several harmful myths about it, such as that it is caused by childhood trauma, that emotional catharsis is needed to overcome it, or that the whole condition basically vanishes if you use the right method.
80	* Creator/LucioFulci was a Catholic, though several of his pictures have been accused of being anti-Catholic (e.g. ''Film/DontTortureADuckling'' was banned in the United States for years on account of [[spoiler: a priest being depicted as a serial killer [[WellIntentionedExtremist with good intentions]]]], and ''Film/CityOfTheLivingDead'' starts with a priest hanging himself in a cemetery and then coming back as a murderous demon).
81	* ''Film/IndependenceDay'' was heavily criticized for playing AmericaSavesTheDay too straight, rendering the entirety of Europe completely useless as they wait for the American heroes to save the world from the {{alien invasion}}. Of course, it was written and directed by Creator/RolandEmmerich, who's German.
82	* ''Film/IronSky'' pokes fun at Finland, which meekly admits that they are the only country that didn't think to violate treaties and arm their spaceship. They're therefore useless in the fight against Space Nazis. The director is Finnish and the film was financed in part by Finns. Since the movie ends with the non-Finnish nations [[spoiler: murdering civilians on the moon and starting a ''nuclear war,'']] you could argue that Finland comes out looking good. (If the film ''really'' wanted to insult the Finns, it would have brought up how Finland was briefly a member of the Axis during World War II, [[EnemyMine due to having a mutual enemy in the Soviet Union]].)
83	* Some people criticized the film ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' because the good guys are played mostly by light-skinned actors, but the villainous Fire Nation is given a RaceLift from a FantasyCounterpartCulture of Japan to being played by a wide variety of darker-skinned actors, including Indians and Polynesians. Director Creator/MNightShyamalan is Indian and even gave himself a CreatorCameo as a Fire Nation {{mook}}. (It should be noted however that the entire original cast was white -- including Music/JesseMcCartney as Zuko -- and that all this controversy apparently was due to an unfortunate case of ExecutiveMeddling that Shyamalan was [[{{misblamed}} wrongly blamed]] for.)
84	* Creator/MartinScorsese's ''Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist'' offended Christians of all denominations across the world, even though Scorsese is Catholic himself (he had earlier used a Biblical quotation non-ironically at the end of ''Film/RagingBull'') and affirmed that he was a believer when he made the film.
85	* ''Film/MidwinterNightsDream'' caused some outrage for its depiction of Serbia's role in UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars, with critics accusing the director of being unpatriotic. The movie's director, Goran Paskaljević, was Serbian.
86	* The film ''Film/MohammadMessengerOfGod'' was produced and directed by Moustapha Akkad, a Muslim who consulted Muslim clerics on how to avoid giving offense (for instance, any scene where Muhammad is present is shot from his point of view to avoid depicting him). That didn't prevent an extremist attack on the film's premiere.
87	* In spite of all the criticism ''Film/{{Music\|2021}}'' received from the autistic community, director and co-writer Music/{{Sia}} was diagnosed with autism herself sometime after its release.
88	* ''Film/TheNeonDemon'' was criticized by some for allegedly having misogynistic undertones, but it was written by two women.
89	* In the ''Series/SiskelAndEbert'' review of ''Film/{{North}}'', Gene Siskel cited a scene involving a Hasidic Jew testing a pair of pants as a particularly tasteless example of the film attempting to derive jokes from {{stereotype}}s. The movie was directed by the Jewish Creator/RobReiner.
90	* It's been [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu#Themes frequently suggested]] by analysts that ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'' carries anti-Semitic undertones, given, among other things, Orlok's long-nosed design, his status as a foreign invader in a quiet German town, and him being analogized with rats and vermin. However, the film's screenwriter, Henrick Galeen, was Jewish, as were several members of the cast. It's also worth noting that the Nazis themselves ''hated'' this movie, and it appears on their famous list of "degenerate art". Whether or not this was intentional is a matter of genuine scholarly debate; while there are hints at a lot of the uglier stereotypes of the time, most accounts suggest that F. W. Murnau himself didn't hold any real anti-Semitic views.
91	* Creator/OliverStone has come in for heavy criticism from the political right over the years for mocking the military, among other things. In fact, Stone served in the US Army during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. And according to Creator/GeneSiskel, many Vietnam veterans strongly identified with the film ''Film/{{Platoon}}''.
92	* ''Film/SexAndTheCity2'''s gay wedding scene was accused by many of glorifying stereotypes of the gay community. The film was directed and written by Michael Patrick King, who's openly gay.
93	* ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'''s twins were seen as EthnicScrappy characters embodying lots of negative stereotypes of black people. Mudflap was played by African American actor Creator/RenoWilson, who was surprised when he found out that he should be offended by his character.
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97	* Creator/CSLewis' ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' are sometimes accused of being "pagan" or "occultist" due to the inclusion of supernatural beings from Classical Graeco-Roman mythology among Narnia's native sentients. This is in spite of Lewis himself being an avowed Christian who wrote the series with some extremely obvious Christian {{allegory}}.
98	* Creator/JRRTolkien has been accused of occultism due to the "magic" present in his ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'', despite the fact that he was always a devout Catholic (although in his case he hated allegories, whether Christian or otherwise).
99	* Creator/MadeleineLEngle (Episcopalian) had her books removed en masse from American Christian bookstores after her slightly unorthodox theological beliefs came to light.
100	* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' is accused of being stealth propaganda for Satanists or pagans, but Creator/JKRowling herself is a Christian (Anglican) and in interviews has stated that the magic in her books was inspired by Narnia, with increasingly obvious Christian allegories (and even some Biblical quotations) in the seventh book.
101	* It is easy for a modern-day reader to view many of the writings of St. Creator/AugustineOfHippo (like ''The Confessions'', ''City of God'') as overly harsh and even bigoted toward non-Christians. In fact, St. Augustine was a pagan for a good portion of his life, and much of his writings' condemnation was aimed at himself and his former lifestyle.
102	* ''Literature/TheSatanicVerses'' by the Indian-born author Creator/SalmanRushdie caused such widespread protests in his birth country that the Indian government banned the book within a month of publication, despite Rushdie being outspokenly proud of his country and culture ([[MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting while nevertheless critical of it]]). The book also became infamous in no small part because it offended the Muslim world so much that Ruhollah Khomeini, the religious leader of Iran at the time it came out, issued a fatwa against him forcing Rushdie to live under police protection for years and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabbing_of_Salman_Rushdie surviving an assassination attempt in 2022 which left him seriously injured]]. The latter however, while sometimes reported as it, is not an example of this, as while Rushdie is from a Muslim family, he had been an atheist for most of his life when he wrote ''The Satanic Verses'' and remains one afterwards.
103	* Juanita Brooks earned the ire of the UsefulNotes/{{Mormon\|ism}} Church after publishing an account of the Mountain Meadows Massacre that implicated Brigham Young, the second President of The Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-day Saints, in the efforts to conceal Mormon involvement in the massacre. Brooks herself was a lifelong devout Mormon.
104	* ''Literature/HillbillyElegy'' is the memoir of author J.D. Vance, detailing his rough childhood in the deeply poverty-stricken areas of the UsefulNotes/{{Appalachia}} region and unlikely ascent from his low station in life to attend Yale Law School, all the while analyzing the culture of "hillbillies" and their struggles. While it received glowing reviews for being a raw look into the segments of American society that have been "left behind" by globalization and cosmopolitanism, it's also attracted an intense backlash from [[https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/hillbilly-elegy-doesnt-reflect-the-appalachia-i-know/617228/ people with similar backgrounds]] as Vance himself, with books like ''What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia'' (by Elizabeth Catte, a native of East UsefulNotes/{{Tennessee}}) and ''[[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/books/review-appalachian-reckoning-region-responds-hillbilly-elegy.html Appalachian Reckoning]]'' being released in subsequent years dedicated to breaking down the generalizations Vance made about poverty and exploring the root causes behind the region's economic and cultural decline. It didn't help that ''Elegy'' was released around the time of [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump one of the most controversial elections in American history]] and [[https://prospect.org/power/unlearning-lessons-hillbilly-elegy/ has earned accusations]] of victim-blaming the culture it supposedly attempted to portray with nuance.
105	* "Helicopter Story" is a MilitaryScienceFiction story that was accused of being transphobic due to its original title of "I sexually identify as an attack helicopter" being a meme often used to mock trans people, and the premise being based on interpreting that phrase in a literal sense. The story's author, Isabel Fall, is a trans woman.
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109	* Works by showrunner Creator/RussellTDavies, probably the highest-profile openly gay man in British TV:
110	** Many ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' fans furiously denounced [[spoiler:Ianto being killed in ''Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth'' as [[BuryYourGays homophobic]]]]. Unfortunately for Russell, he's a romanticist in the "I shall but love thee better after death" sense, and can't help killing off his couples. It's in his bones.
111	** In the 2005 series of ''Series/DoctorWho'', Rose says that the Doctor is "so gay." Russell wrote the episode in question ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E4AliensOfLondon Aliens of London]]") himself.
112	* Creator/BarryLetts co-wrote and directed the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E5PlanetOfTheSpiders Planet of the Spiders]]" as a deliberate parable expressing his own Buddhist beliefs. He was upset to receive letters from Buddhists protesting about the use of the "Jewel in the Lotus" mantra "Om mani padme hum" in the context of villains summoning up alien monsters, although defending himself on the grounds that the story explicitly described it as the misuse of something usually good.
113	* ''Series/TheWire'' creator Creator/DavidSimon has gotten flak for the character of shameless drug lawyer Maurice Levy, who frequently exhibits Jewish mannerisms and stereotypes. Simon is Jewish and insisted that he knew the drug lawyers upon which Levy is based and they were all, in fact, Jewish. The sympathetic lawyer of the show -- prosecutor and occasional [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]] Rhonda "Ronnie" Pearlman -- is also Jewish, but you'd never know it from the complaints.
114	* ''Series/HogansHeroes'' has come under fire from various sides more or less for the implications of featuring [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the Third Reich]] in a [[AdolfHitlarious comedic context]]. However, much like Mel Brooks' intent (see below), the Germans' roles were played by Jewish actors who had served in the U.S. armed forces and wouldn't have allowed the Nazis to be viewed in a positive light even ''once'' (one of them was a [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust Holocaust]] survivor, two others had been in camps, and those three had lost family to Nazi atrocities). Despite using PoliticallyCorrectHistory in many respects and fudging some of the facts for the sake of entertainment, the show does (correctly and importantly) make distinctions between POW camps and concentration camps, and between Nazis and the Germans simply caught up in the whole mess (the former being unambiguously villains when they did appear, the latter strongly embodied by Sgt. Schultz, the MinionWithAnFInEvil).
115	* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': The character of Sheldon Cooper has been widely criticized by the autistic community for allegedly reinforcing negative stereotypes about the condition, despite [[DiagnosisOfGod the creators refusing to label him as having it]], instead preferring to stick with an unnamed mental disorder for the RuleOfFunny (though actor Creator/JimParsons disagrees, saying he deliberately played him as an autistic character). Either way, this ultimately became an example when co-creator Bill Prady revealed in 2021, two years after the show ended, that he is himself autistic.
116	* Creator/MarkGatiss, who is gay, is co-creator of ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', which has been frequently accused of being homophobic, due to the many [[QueerPeopleAreFunny jokes aimed at gay people]], Sherlock and John being constantly MistakenForGay as a RunningGag which has led to accusations of "[[BaitAndSwitchLesbians queerbaiting]]", Sherlock [[{{Gaydar}} deducing a guy is gay]] based only on [[CampGay stereotypes]], Irene Adler [[AdaptationalSexuality identifying as a lesbian]] but [[NoBisexuals then falling]] [[IfItsYouItsOkay for Sherlock]], and {{Big Bad}}s Moriarty and [[spoiler:Eurus]] both being implied to be {{Depraved Bisexual}}s. When the fourth season of ''Sherlock'' ended with [[spoiler:no canon John/Sherlock]] some militant slash fans even publicly called for gay charities to expel Gatiss from his public roles with them. His ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E11TheCrimsonHorror The Crimson Horror]]" also got criticism for the scene where the Doctor forcibly kisses his lesbian friend Jenny.
117	* ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' drew fire for its treatment of the male gay couple[[note]]The first overtly LGBT characters in any TV ''Trek'', apart from a couple of DiscountLesbians and some evil MirrorUniverse characters played for crude fanservice[[/note]] in the supporting cast (initially for only showing them acting as a couple when something threatened their relationship, then by [[DroppedABridgeOnHim abruptly killing off one member]] for shock value). Showrunner Aaron Harberts defended this on ''After Trek'' by pointing out A) he's gay himself and B) he'd talked the storyline over with GLAAD beforehand. This did little to quiet the anger (especially given Harberts' increasingly obvious habit of [[LyingCreator brazenly lying in an attempt to obfuscate plot twists]]), with many critics even linking to BuryYourGays and StuffedIntoTheFridge on Website/ThisVeryWiki. (The fact that the deceased partner was the Latino one instead of the white one is [[BlackDudeDiesFirst a whole 'nother can of worms...]]) As had been hinted at by several of the creators in response to the protests, [[spoiler:the dead character was resurrected in the second season]].
118	* David Crane's popular sitcom ''Series/{{Friends}}'' had a number of [[QueerPeopleAreFunny jokes aimed at gay people]], enough that someone released an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsQ5za-J6I8 hour long compilation]]. Given that David Crane, who is openly gay, was the co-creator, he likely wrote or approved those jokes.
119	* ''Series/LittleBritain'' was widely criticized for, among other things, its large number of gay and fat jokes, even though actor and co-creator Matt Lucas is both gay and heavyset.
120	* ''Series/TeenWolf'' is yet another show that often comes under fire for its queerbaiting (especially between Stiles and Derek) and giving much less screentime to LGBT characters and relationships than straight ones despite creator Jeff Davies being openly gay.
121	* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy2019''. Season 1 was [[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/the-umbrella-academy-antisemitic-season-2-netflix-antisemitism-handler-yiddish-jewish-commission-a9656801.html criticized]] for supposed anti-semitism in its depiction of The Handler, even though showrunner Steve Blackman is Jewish.
122	* ''Series/UnitedStatesOfAl'' is a {{sitcom}} with the premise of a soldier finishing a tour of duty in Afghanistan and returning home to the US with his translator, Awalmir. Trailers tended to highlight a FunnyForeigner angle to the show (with some {{dramedy}} on the side) which had a fair share of backlash, with the casting of the Indian South African actor Adhir Kalyan in the role of the Afghan Awalmir also drawing criticism. This was in spite of the fact that the Creator/ChuckLorre crew made a conscious effort to bring in a writing staff primarily of Middle Eastern background to aim for some authenticity, and when the Taliban retook Afghanistan in 2021, the real-life stories of family members was translated into an episode of the show.
123	* ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'' has a character named Kevin, who is typically regarded as a flat gay character who mostly falls into gay stereotypes and his only defining character trait being that he's gay. One of the characters even directly refers to him as the "GayBestFriend" trope. However, the showrunner of Riverdale, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, is openly gay.
124	** In the finale, some fans felt that there were homophobic undertones to the fact that [[spoiler:the 4 main characters enter a polyamorous relationship, but while it's implied they're all dating each and every pair shows physical affection to the other, the exception are the two men, who showcase no sign of touching each other unlike the two girls.]]
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128	* Creator/MelBrooks' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu2NqfISm9k Hitler Rap]]" was widely criticized as insensitive to Jews, if not actually antisemitic. In an interview for ''Series/SixtyMinutes'', Brooks stated that his life's goal was to reduce Hitler to a figure of such ridiculousness that no-one would ever take his ideas seriously again (if the numerous Tonys that ''Film/TheProducers'' won are any indication, it's working). Being both Jewish and a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII veteran, if anyone has NWordPrivileges to joke about UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, it's him.
129	* Music/JacquesBrel caused a lot of controversy during his career for writing satirical songs offending the Flemish, the Dutch speaking population of Belgium. Although he spoke French (Like the ''other'' half of Belgium's population, the Walloons), Brel's family was Flemish and thus felt he had the right to criticize his own people.
130	* Music/{{Madonna}}, who is Catholic (albeit now a Kabbalist by personal belief), often drew the ire of the Catholic Church, especially during TheEighties, when her highly sexual persona and use of Catholic imagery (with "Like a Prayer" being the most notorious) earned her the ire of the Catholic Church more than a few times. Some have even claimed that Madonna's very name is offensive, that she chose it specifically to mock the Virgin Mary. In fact it is her actual birth name -- Madonna Louise Ciccone -- given to her by her devoutly Catholic parents. Her mother, in fact, was also named Madonna.
131	* Tom Araya of Music/{{Slayer}}, one of the lead RockMeAsmodeus bands, is a Catholic who said that his band's music will "never interfere with what I believe and how I feel."
132	* Similarly to the above, Ralph Santolla a Catholic, was a lead guitarist in Music/{{Deicide}}, one of the most vocally anti-Christian bands in death metal.
133	* At one point, foul-mouthed proto-punk Music/{{Ian Dury\|AndTheBlockheads}} was accused of mocking the disabled with a song called "Spasticus Autisticus" by several disabled rights groups. Dury was himself disabled (partially paralyzed due to childhood polio) and recorded the song as a combative response to requests that he get involved with the International Year of Disabled Persons in 1981, which he considered to be patronizing in its whole approach to the subject. [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales In 2012, the song got a prominent place in the opening ceremony of the London Paralympics]].
134	* The song "All Coons Look Alike to Me" was composed by black American entertainer Ernest Hogan, who is also credited for creating the Ragtime genre. It's stated that he eventually regretted the usage of slurs in his music.
135	* The logo of Music/{{Kiss}} features two angular "lightning bolt" S's similar to the SS logo, which has led to allegations that the band are Nazi sympathizers, even leading to the logo having to be redesigned for German tours and releases due to falling foul of modern German laws against Nazi revivalism. In fact, two of the founding members, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, are Jewish and have Holocaust survivors in their families.
136	* Music/{{Prince}} frequently explored sexually taboo themes in his music, drawing ire from conservative Christian commentators to the point where one of his songs was supposedly the catalyst for the [[MoralGuardians Parents Music Resource Center]]. Prince was a lifelong Christian -- he was raised Seventh Day Adventist, later converting to a Jehovah's Witness.
137	* In the 1970s, Music/{{Rush\|Band}} were accused of being fascists or even Nazis due to drummer and lyricist Neil Peart's [[UsefulNotes/{{Objectivism}} Objectivist]]-influenced libertarian beliefs, as shown on songs like "Anthem" or "Something For Nothing". This is despite the fact that bassist and vocalist Geddy Lee is not only Jewish, but his parents were Holocaust survivors. Neil Peart would disavow Objectivism later in life, becoming a "bleeding heart libertarian", and Rush would also later release a song told from the perspective of a Holocaust victim, based on the experiences of Geddy's parents, "Red Sector A".
138	* Music/AliceCooper, one of the most notorious ShockRock artists, is a born-again Christian who still ran afoul of MoralGuardians even after joining the Christian faith.
139	* Music/TwistedSister were a GlamMetal[=/=]ShockRock band known for their onstage antics, rebellious music and disapproval of censorship, which drew the ire of conservative and fundamentalist Christian groups in the 80s. Their frontman, Dee Snider, has been a lifelong Christian.
140	* Music/DemiLovato's 2015 hit single "Cool for the Summer" was ridiculed for treating bisexuality as taboo by Music/{{Halsey}}, who herself is openly bisexual, back in 2016, even though Lovato is pansexual themself.[[note]]Though at the time, Lovato had come out as bisexual and wouldn't come out as pansexual until 2020 and later nonbinary a year later.[[/note]]
141	* Music/TheKillers lead singer Brandon Flowers was raised as and is a practicing member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The band's seventh album ''Pressure Machine'' focused on the experience of life in small town UsefulNotes/{{Utah}} where religious culture (especially Mormon culture) can be an oftentimes overwhelming presence, leading to some Latter Day Saints assuming the album was a dig at the faith. Flowers pointed out as a retort the album was meant to empathize with those who felt ostracized in rural Utah with an honest viewpoint regarding their life stories, including those who struggled with religion.
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145	* ''Music/MichaelJacksonsThriller'' drew plenty of ire from the Jehovah's Witnesses thanks to its depictions of the undead. Jehovah's Witnesses believe the deceased will rise again after the second coming of Christ, and some consequently take offense at trivial depictions of undead people. Jackson himself was a Jehovah's Witness and learned of their disapproval the hard way when he screened an advance copy of the short film to his elders to try and get their approval. When they threatened to excommunicate him, Jackson called Creator/EpicRecords in a panic and tried to make them [[BuryYourArt destroy the negatives]] before the film could be premiered. After he calmed down, director Creator/JohnLandis convinced him to instead include a ghostwritten disclaimer at the start as a compromise, stating that "Due to my strong personal convictions, I wish to stress that this film in no way endorses a belief in the occult." It didn't work, instead marking the start of Jackson's souring relationship with the sect that would ultimately lead to him parting ways with them.
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149	* The sketch comedy series ''Radio/RoundTheHorne'' is now best remembered for its series of "Julian and Sandy" sketches, featuring two young CampGay men. Creator/KennethWilliams and Hugh Paddick, who performed the routines, were in fact both gay, and the sketches became very popular among British gay men because they smuggled in a lot of actual gay male humour in a "laughing-with" way. There have, however, been repeated online backlash incidents where American gay men have stumbled over the sketches and considered them homophobic due to the stereotyping, to the displeasure of British gay men.
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153	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' was the target of a [[TheNewRockAndRoll Satanic moral panic]] from Christian groups during the 80s. There were even rumors that a Christian children's charity had refused a donation made in creator Creator/GaryGygax's name when he died, though the rumor was false. Gygax was actually [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tBx4ITJLpE&t=4m20s an outspoken Christian]], and even included a verse from the Gospel of Matthew in his e-mail signature.
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157	* The ''Franchise/GIJoe'' franchise is sometimes considered to trivialise [[WarIsGlorious warfare]]. Stanley Weston, the inventor of the original 1963 12-inch toys, was a Korean War veteran, and Creator/LarryHama, who invented many of the famous aspects of the [[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel 1980s revival]], fought in the Vietnam War.
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161	* ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'' has a song that had to be modified to have the lyrics removed, as it had verses from the Koran and "might offend Muslims", as many Muslim clerics and scholars agree not to make verses of the Qur'an incorporated into entertainment. The composer, however, is a Muslim himself.
162	* Creator/SandyPetersen, one of the level designers for ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'', is a Mormon, and is quoted by John Romero as saying "I have no problems with the demons in the game. [[MST3KMantra They're just cartoons]]. And, anyway, [[AlwaysChaoticEvil they're the bad guys]]." Students of Petersen's game design courses say that he has maintained this stance.
163	* ''My Ex-Boyfriend the Space Tyrant'' features a young, openly gay [[TheTwink twink]] in a barely-there shirt and booty shorts as its protagonist, most of the men are equally as buff and scantily clad, their spaceship has bright pink everywhere, and the doors are phallic-shaped. The developer himself is gay, but it didn't stop WebVideo/SteamTrain fans, some of them gay men themselves, from either getting offended or rolling their eyes when Danny, Arin, and Ross decided to play it on the show.
164	* ''VideoGame/NineteenFortyTwo'' and ''1943'' feature American pilots out to defeat Japanese forces...and were produced by Japanese developer Creator/{{Capcom}}. The latter, which uses the names of real-world UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-era Imperial Japanese Navy battleships, had to have said battleships renamed for the Famicom port.
165	* Some female gamers strongly dislike the appearance of ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'', finding her highly sexualized design to be objectifying and demeaning. However, Bayonetta's character design was made by a woman, Mari Shimazaki, and her creator, Creator/HidekiKamiya, has stated that [[https://www.destructoid.com/platinum-only-a-woman-could-design-bayonetta/ "the costumes and accessories show the touch and detail that could only come from a woman’s sensibility."]]
166	* The planned TacticalShooter ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Days_in_Fallujah Six Days in Fallujah]]'', based on the Second Battle of Fallujah during the Iraq War, was cancelled in 2009 after immense backlash saying it trivialized the horrors people experienced. This was despite the fact that marines from Fallujah ''asked'' developer Atomic Games to make a game based on their experiences, and the developers interviewed over 70 U.S. Marines, Iraqi civilians and insurgents, war historians, and senior military officials so they could accurately portray the psychological complexities of the battle.
167	* Creator/AliceSoft's ''Rance'' series of erotic [=RPGs=] is infamous for having a protagonist who is a crass, violent and entitled NominalHero who sincerely believes all women in the world belong to him, and is willing to do ''extremely'' unscrupulous things for the sake of being able to have sex with as many as possible. This point is driven further home by Sill Plain, the series' main heroine, being his ''slave'' and thus literally his property to do with as he sees fit. Things get perhaps even more shocking when one learns that both TORI, the lead writer of all but the last few games in the series, and YUKIMI, the main artist for the first half of the series, are both women, and it was in fact YUKIMI who suggested that Sill be Rance's slave as opposed to simply his assistant. In summary, for nearly half of [[LongRunners its 28-year-long run]], a series revolving around a man who regularly sexually assaults women was both written and drawn by women.
168	* ''VideoGame/RustysRealDealBaseball'' had its main character redesigned for the West, as his original design, which had EyesAlwaysShut and buck teeth, was deemed too close to offensive stereotypes of Japanese people from World War II. However, the game itself is Japanese.
169	* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'': Chip's original design gave him EyesAlwaysShut, and, as a beaver, he naturally had buck teeth--like in the ''Rusty's Real Deal Baseball'' example above, this gave him an unfortunate resemblance to offensive American stereotypes of Japanese people. When the game was localized for the West, his eyes were opened, even though the original game was indeed from Japan.
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172	[[folder:Web Animation]]
173	* Creator/VivziePop's ''WebAnimation/{{Hellaverse}}'' is often subjected to this:
174	** ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'':
175	*** Several people have accused the Salvadoran Vaggie of being a racist "angry Latina" stereotype. The creator of ''Hazbin Hotel'', Vivienne Medrano, is Salvadoran herself.
176	*** The pilot has also received criticism from some in the LGBT community primarily due to Katie's "I don't touch the gays" comment[[note]]Which was ''supposed'' to be seen as a bad thing, as the character is written to be [[HateSink deliberately unlikable]] and the show implies she ended up in Hell partly because of her homophobia[[/note]] and Angel Dust being seen as a negative gay stereotype. This despite Medrano and many others who have worked on the short being members of the LGBT community as well. Medrano, specifically, is bisexual.
177	** ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' has also faced criticism for depicting its queer characters as [[AllGaysArePromiscuous openly promiscuous]] and overall toxic people -- the setting being Hell itself notwithstanding. Again, Mendrano is bisexual, but the series is also co-written by WebVideo/BrandonRogers, who is a gay man and incorporates a lot of his signature queer-related BlackComedy.
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181	* It's not uncommon for people to accuse ''Webcomic/{{Boyfriends}}'' of fetishizing and stereotyping queer men, even though author refrainbow identifies as a homosexual non-binary man.
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185	* Joey Bizinger aka WebVideo/TheAnimeMan has gotten criticism from Japanese viewers in regards to him criticizing Japan's negative traits on his channel and on the ''WebVideo/TrashTaste'' podcast he helps host, ignoring the fact that he's half-Japanese via his mother and half-Australian via his father, traveling between both countries.
186	* ''WebVideo/SarahZ'':
187	** ''Double Standards and Diverse Media'' which opens by explaining a story on Amelie Wen Zhao and how her planned trilogy of books as part of a series called ''Blood Heir'' was canceled due to heavy criticism of the first book's content on slavery (which could be interpreted as offensive by some people). She then explains that media that is made by diverse creators will often be held to higher standards due to perceptions that because they are in the same minority they are in, they would be able to avoid making the same mistakes those from non-marginalized groups make when that's far from the truth.
188	** As Sarah stated in her "Homestuck Sent Me a Legal Threat" video, when they announced the ''Homestuck'' video, a writer affiliated with ''Homestuck'' told Sarah and her co-writer WebVideo/LadyEmily to "die" because they planned to speak about the franchise's trans representation. While Sarah is cis, Emily is a trans woman, and Sarah repeats frequently in her ''Homestuck'' video that the section on trans representation was entirely written by Emily.
189	** Her video on "pro-shippers and anti-shippers" received backlash claiming that she was contributing to hatred towards queer fans. Sarah is openly bisexual and her cowriter is a trans woman.
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193	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' tends to be thoroughly unencumbered by political correctness in its satire of African-American culture, and has more than once managed to offend black public figures of pretty much every ideological persuasion despite creator Aaron [=McGruder=] being black himself. The AlternateHistory episode featuring UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr waking up from his coma only to be vocally disgusted with the current culture among African Americans (and decried as a [[CategoryTraitor race traitor]] for voicing this opinion to their faces) was a particularly controversial (and meta) example.
194	* Due to ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'''s deliberately offensive style of humor, it's far from uncommon for the show to poke fun at various minority groups. One group that was especially mocked were Jewish people, leading to accusations of the show being genuinely anti-Semitic. However, creators Dave Jeser and Matt Silverstein are both Jewish and one of the main characters, Princess Clara, is voiced by the Jewish Creator/TaraStrong. [[note]][[IronyAsSheIsCast Ironically]], the character of Clara is anti-Semitic. Additionally, Strong ''did'' voice opposition to jokes aimed at [[Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl Anne Frank]].[[/note]]
195	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
196	** Due to its EqualOpportunityOffender style of humor, its common for the show to poke fun at various minority groups. One group frequently mocked is Jewish people, which has led to accusations of the show being anti-Semitic. However, a number of the show's cast and crew members, including Creator/SethGreen, Creator/AlexBorstein and Alec Sulkin, are Jewish.
197	** In the episode "Extra Large Medium", Chris dates a girl, Ellen, who has Down Syndrome. This, and the fact that it is implied in the episode that Ellen's mother is UsefulNotes/SarahPalin, whose son has Down Syndrome, caused a lot of controversy. Yet, the role of Ellen was played by actress Andrea Fay Friedman, who has Down Syndrome herself. Once Palin herself criticized the show, the voice actress wrote an open letter telling Palin to "get a sense of humor".
198	* The British cartoon ''Rastamouse'' was attacked by some people as ethnic stereotyping, despite its co-writer Michael de Souza being a Rastafarian from Trinidad.
199	* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
200	** The inclusion of the unused character [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEk4dTCWsAARjq8.jpg Concrete]] in the "Art of " book raised a considerable stink when many fans deemed her {{blackface}}-like appearance (dark skin and thick pale lips) and character description ([[AllWomenLoveShoes "Has a wicked shoe collection,"]] "Can't read"[[note]]This was in reference to an old idea that some Gems would be so advanced that they wouldn't need written language, but [[ThatCameOutWrong the way it was written]] made her simply sound uneducated[[/note]]) evocative of racist stereotypes of black women. She was removed from future printings and the creator of the design, Lamar Abrams, who is African American himself, would apologize for the design, though the description was written by Hilary Florido, a white woman.
201	** Some rather strong detractors of the show have accused the show's creator, Creator/RebeccaSugar, of being a Nazi sympathizer for having [[spoiler:[[ScaryDogmaticAliens the Diamonds]] make a HeelFaceTurn after Steven manages to get through to them]], viewing this plot development as a BrokenAesop. This is ignoring that Rebecca is Jewish and her family are Holocaust survivors, and that perhaps because of that is why the show emphasizes RousseauWasRight as its message.
202	** Despite complaints that the show's depiction of nonbinary people (Steven's fusions and, according to WordOfGod, the Gems) only depicts them as aliens or a literal fusion of people with different genders, Rebecca Sugar is themself a nonbinary woman, who's admitted to using the Gems (also written as nonbinary women) to explore her own gender identity. This did soften after ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' introduced a nonbinary human character, Shep.
203	* ''WesternAnimation/ElenaOfAvalor'' was initially accused of ethnic stereotyping (to the point of supposedly ripping off of other Latin American mediums like ''Coco'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'' [[InsaneTrollLogic based on shared cultural depictions and superficial/coincidental similarities]]), ignoring that a sizable amount of the crew including the writers were Latino and that the show has consulted Latino representation organizations. Nowadays, the show is lauded for its great representation of Latin culture and claims of racism are almost non-existent, though that's partly because the show is not well-known outside of Disney Junior.
204	* Many Jewish people have accused ''WesternAnimation/{{Harley Quinn\|2019}}'' of being antisemitic due to some of the humor revolving around Jewish stereotypes -- despite many of the crew, including executive producer Justin Halpern and Creator/CharlieAdler, who's one of the voice directors and voiced the title character's father, being Jewish themselves.
205	* ''WesternAnimation/HighGuardianSpice'' received criticism for its questionable portrayal of its transgender characters. Professor Caraway is introduced as being a trans man, but otherwise has little characterization beyond that and the revelation that he's trans feels incredibly shoehorned in the sense that it bears no plot relevancy whatsoever. Meanwhile, and slightly less controversial, Snapdragon's gender identity subplot was accused of following the stereotype that men who are feminine are automatically trans. Caraway and Snapdragon are voiced by Raye Rodriguez ([[DescendedCreator who is also the creator of the series]]) and Julia Kaye respectively, both of whom are trans.
206	* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'':
207	** Some fans accused the show of [[BaitAndSwitchLesbians queerbaiting]] when creator Creator/NDStevenson [[WordOfGay confirmed]] that Scorpia and Perfuma ended up together in an interview after the show's end. Aside from the fact that Stevenson himself is openly queer, it also ignores the fact that the series' main protagonist became involved in a much more prominent lesbian relationship onscreen.
208	** Some non-binary fans weren't happy about Double Trouble being a green-skinned alien shapeshifter and felt that Stevenson should've created an original NB character for the show, despite the fact that storyboarder Rae Geiger and Double Trouble's VA Jacob Tobia are non-binary themselves, and Stevenson would later identify as transmasculine non-binary after the show ended.
209	* ''Primos'', an upcoming Creator/DisneyChannel show has attracted a lot of controversy from Mexican people over its use of Mexican stereotypes despite that the creator Natasha Kline grew up in a Mexican-American multicultural family.
210	* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' has often been accused of ableism towards neurodivergent people, due to Rick being seen as a negative stereotype of individuals on the autism spectrum. His grandson Morty is implied to be autistic as well, and while he's definitely more positive than Rick, Morty is also one of the show's biggest [[ButtMonkey Butt Monkeys]]. Series co-creator Creator/DanHarmon himself is on the autism spectrum (though self-diagnosed) by his own admission.
211	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': Some critics have accused the characters of [[AlterKocker Grandpa Boris and Grandma Minka]] of being anti-Semitic caricatures, to the point that they were eventually DemotedToExtra in the show's later seasons and cut from the comic strip adaptation altogether. Arlene Klasky and Gábor Csupó, the show's creators, are Jewish themselves.
212	* The Netflix animated comedy ''WesternAnimation/QForce'' featuring LGBT spies was instantly lambasted once the first trailer was released for being nothing but offensive stereotypes, complete with a character literally named "Twink". Many in the show's production staff are part of the LGBT community, including co-creator Creator/SeanHayes and lead writer Gabe Liedman (both of whom are gay). Several of the staff members spoke out against the trailer to clarify that it was purely a case of NeverTrustATrailer. Indeed, later trailers for the show placed more focus on the actual storyline and characters, receiving much warmer reception.
213	* ''WesternAnimation/SantaInc'' has received criticism from the Jewish community for portraying common Jewish stereotypes, featuring an abundance of Holocaust jokes, and for downplaying Candy Small's Jewish heritage and the significance of Hanukkah when compared to Christmas. This is despite the fact that Creator/SethRogen and Creator/SarahSilverman -- the main leads and executive producers -- are Jewish themselves.
214	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': The character Eric Cartman is a raving anti-Semite, who at least OncePerEpisode bullies Kyle for being Jewish. The show itself also tends to poke fun at Judaism more than other groups of people, with Sheila, Kyle's mom, being an obvious stereotype of a Jewish mother. This has caused some moral watchdogs to accuse the show of being anti-Semitic, despite the fact that one of its creators, [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Matt Stone]], is himself ethnically Jewish (albeit an atheist by personal belief). On top of that, [[VillainProtagonist Cartman is far more often the villain of an episode than its hero]], and episodes where he ''is'' the hero never have him bullying Kyle (though he will still sometimes behave harshly to Kyle).
215	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Velma}}'' is clearly intended for a ''very'' left-leaning audience, with the diverse recasting on display and the titular character's near-constant preaching of far-left sentiments, but ended up largely turning off left-wing viewers by depicting them in a ''very'' negative light. The titular character is essentially the worst possible stereotype of a leftie imaginable, being a nauseatingly bigoted, sexist, racist, stupid, and ignorant person who ends up [[TheHorseshoeEffect acting no different than the people she is against]], which received ''genuine'' accusations that the show was actually black propaganda[[note]]Propaganda made by opponents of a group, but disguised as propaganda made ''by'' that group, in order to discredit them[[/note]] meant to discredit the left. It certainly didn't help that the show has a weirdly flippant attitude toward things like political correctness and the [=#MeToo=] movement, embraces negative racial and gender stereotypes, or that Fred, the series' token straight white male conservative [[HateSink punching-bag]], ended up being [[UnintentionallySympathetic the most sympathetic out of the cast]] of [[WorldOfJerkAss absolute assholes]].
216	* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' is sometimes criticised for the stereotypical design and personality of the Chinese protagonist, Omi. The series creator, Christy Hui, is a Chinese-American Woman.
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220	* Columnist S. E. Cupp is a professed atheist who, nevertheless, supports the Religious Right in the United States and claims that only with religion can people be moral.
221	* Red Mesa High School in Teec Nos Pos, UsefulNotes/{{Arizona}}, despite being in a town that is over 95% Native American (specifically Navajo), has Redskins as their team name. Despite the controversy regarding the UsefulNotes/{{NFL}} team[[note]]Which had, in the 2020s, rebranded first as the "Washington Football Team" and then as the Commanders following decades of said controversy[[/note]] the town appears to have little problem with their own school using the term, although that could just be because they regard themselves as having NWordPrivileges (well, "R-Word privileges").
222	* In 2016, a UsefulNotes/{{Portland}} bakery caused some [[http://www.snopes.com/2016/10/12/mr-president-oreo-cupcake/ controversy]] when they began serving an Oreo-based cupcake called "Mr. President", believing it to be a racist slur[[note]]"Oreo" is sometimes used as a [[OutsideInsideSlur derogatory term]] against blacks who are [[TheWhitestBlackGuy perceived as trying to act white]]. Contextually relevant is that this usage originated, and is still mainly used, among African-Americans. It's also been used to describe biracial people (Obama's father was from Kenya and his mother is of mixed European descent) that have one black and one white parent[[/note]] against then-President UsefulNotes/BarackObama. It turned out that the owner of the bakery, and the one who named the snack in the first place, was herself black. Nonetheless, the cupcake ended up being renamed "The Professional" due to the controversy.
223	* NBC's cafeteria menu for 2010's Black History Month (specifically: fried chicken, collard greens, black-eyed peas and cornbread) caused [[https://gothamist.com/news/nbcs-cafeteria-celebrates-black-history-month controversy]] as those foods were considered to be stereotypical cuisine for African-Americans. The chef who came up with the menu is herself African-American.
224	* Caitlyn Jenner is a very contentious figure in the LGBTQIA+ community because she identifies as a Republican -- many members of the more dominant hard-conservative faction in the party are against the community as a whole.
225	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025 Project 2025]], a proposal by far-right activists to turn the US government into an authoritarian state in the event of a Republican president winning, was criticized by several Republicans and conservatives who decried it as immoral and unconstitutional, with some even calling it an affront to God.
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