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FortuneCookie posted...

Here's a question: can tokenism be beneficial or are only fleshed-out, sincerely written characters of benefit to diversity and inclusion? Disregarding the argument that Shakespearian writing is expected of members of minority groups. We're just talking baseline minor characters.

If your story has two scenes which take place at a doctor's office, there's no harm in making the doctor a member of an underrepresented group. But if you didn't originally intend to have those scenes, is it worth inventing them just to add a two-scene character for a little more diversity?

Is that really tokenism? Only ever heard that in a negative context, but I can't see anything wrong with this. Like, unless you're deep south, it'd be weird not to have at least a few minorities even in extremely white places.