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Yeah, a lot of people don't like large changes to existing characters. I very much doubt these people would be celebrating if Black Panther were made into a white character.
Which begs the question, why not create more diverse superheroes instead of appropriating existing franchises? (Rhetorical question, of course; these people are creatively bankrupt.)
Modern science in a nutshell: Start from the conclusion (that there was a "toxic turn") and work back from there.
And of course the idea that being against something or being negative is inherently "toxic" is ludicrous. They certainly don't adhere to that standard when it comes to criticism of the police or conservatives. On the flip side, there certainly are such things as toxic positivity and weaponized empathy.
I wish someone made a Black Panther comic that is either Han Chinese or Indian. Have a frail, weak Black Panther get saved by the hero from Tamil, lecturing him on how selfish his entire life has been, eventually having him put on the costume.
Hot take: race and gender swapping characters isn't ruining comics; the writing and art in comics has gone to shit and "diversity" is a smokescreen to distract from this.
One is a symptom of the other.