It really isn't that hard. People act like the moment anyone isn't white, it's "forced diversity". This kinda tells me that a lot of people view races one dimensionally. Like asian, black or whatever people can only exist within certain contexts. Yet, a movie about a white kid dropped into the middle of.. anywhere and becoming something within that world is never met with any sort side eye.

How is seeing Matt Damon fight dragons in ancient china not forced? Yet, somehow a storm trooper that is black is super forced?

It doesn't stand. My thing is write the character well. Doesn't matter if they're male, female or whatever race. And write the story well, and you'll prevail.

With any story, there's got to be a buy-in. If unable to engage with my audience in a way that causes them to suspend their disbelief so that a story can be told then that's probably more indicative of poor story telling vs "forced diversity".

I see it as a presenting a problem but leading us to the wrong conclusion. Like if I told you "large fires are the cause of too many fire fighters being in one area".

Here's an example. A gay character is introduced. Then does nothing but be gay. That's doing the character and the story a disservice. So the problem isn't diversity. Stories need all kinds of characters to make them interesting. The problem is we need writers, producers or whatever to have a vested interest in building characters.