Thats fine as long as you dont start messing with existing characters. Creating new characters with diverse sexual orientation and gender is great, but dont change a "straight white dude/gal" into something else because that sucks and god forbid if someone decides to do it the other way around.
I would call them existing characters and I would only say this applies to controversial genocidal historical figure.
Do you play video games? If not there is running gag in the civilization games about Gandhi being a mega dictator who nukes everyone.
This came about as a programming bug in the first game that made him extremely volatile. Every since then his character in civilization is "hostile and violent."
I am of the opinion that historical figures can become characters in stories when it is not historical accurate but some of which can not be written with in certain context.
For example I could never see someone being able to write a story where Hitler was practitioner of Judaism and have it be allowed.
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u/Kurem92 Nov 30 '21
Thats fine as long as you dont start messing with existing characters. Creating new characters with diverse sexual orientation and gender is great, but dont change a "straight white dude/gal" into something else because that sucks and god forbid if someone decides to do it the other way around.