ABC News
Loyalists strike back: Backlash over diversity in beloved sci-fi, Disney, comic stories
At New York’s annual Comic-Con, where hundreds of thousands of self-identified nerds gather to celebrate the diverse and imaginative universe of science fiction and fantasy games, comic books, film and TV properties, attendees share how the fan universe is not always as accepting as it appears. “There’s a lot of racism online,” one attendee, Christ Allen, told ABC News correspondent Ashan Singh. “If you’re turning around and you’re saying, ‘They’re putting politics in my comic books,’ you never read comic books,” Allen said.
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