Is racism/sexism really that much worse from torture and murder that it's ok to use the later for storytelling, but the former always brings an outcry from the community?
The issue is, well, the racism/sexism is usually not important to the story. The story could usually be told just as easily without the isms.
Kind of like how minstrel shows are racist, in contrast to films like "12 Years A Slave".
Oh but the people complained about the bad story-telling then, go figure...
They seemed to be based on:
- people thinking the movie starred the Sámi people, an indigenous people who live in Norway, which is not Denmark.
- people thinking the Sámi people have dark skin, because they're called "indigenous people" on Wikipedia, and the Inuit are also called "indigenous people" on Wikipedia.
- a popular tumblr blog called medievalpoc which regularly claims that people from European history (Goethe, Martin Luther, etc.) were actually "black people" and their representation in art is a cover-up.
Although personally I don't think animation needs to be historically accurate! Or starring people instead of, say, talking dogs.
The blog medievalpoc does not claim that. Merely it claims that there have always been people in europe who would be classed as "people of colour" by modern USA's standards.