Doctor Who isn't for white dudes.
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The funny thing is they try to bring in Martha who was black and Captain Jack who's gay real life, in the show think he has FEW limits it's the reason we have the Harkness rule, to say that THEIR introduction caused backlash.
This, as someone who used to watch Doctor Who, I do not at all remember that, only a bit of trepidation with new characters just because they were new. But the main reason why was they were Characters FIRST not just diversity traits. Martha was a medical doctor first before she was black, Jack was a scoundrel first before anything to do with sex came up.
The reason why people had a reaction to the female doctor was because YOU pushed that more than what kind of Doctor she was, and now we got a gay fag (notice how I never call Jack this) going ON about his skin colour and sexuality, people know you can't write characters only charactures.
Good characterisation will always make undesirable traits less grating. That's what makes entertainment so effective at normalizing them.
Given that the BBC chose a flaming faggot to reboot a long running series, one which was already quite liberal in theme, I find it hard to believe this wasn't always the intention.