The reason Cyborg is on this team is for name recognition and to tie into the Titans later.
The first part I get ... but isn't Beast Boy the normal tie to Doom Patrol for the Teen Titans?
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I don't have a problem with race swapping in DP since the characters are not so iconic. Though having Cliff Steele or Larry Trainor being black would be kind of pointless (at least for visual diversity purposes). But if they brought in a black Mento or even if the Chief was black, I'd be cool with that.
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Oh I agree race swapping Negative Man or Robot Man would defeat the purpose of visual representation. Chief I would had been cool with until they cast Timothy Dalton just love him as an actor. I just found using Cyborg strange especially with a Titans show. Since it's based off Morrison's run another popular run of his was Animal Man a race swapped version of him on the team could had been interesting or like I mentioned early Joshua Clay's Tempest.
Or we can stop assuming that anytime a POC shows up, it's to fulfill some quota or SJW agenda - as though that's the only reason one would be included.
While way over used now and used to describe any person with a liberal viewpoint "SJW" was used once to describe the far end of a political ideology in it'd case the left in the very same way something like "Bible Thumper" was to describe the religious right.
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I think even that's an oversimplification. I don't think politics has too much to do with it to a certain degree except in the sense that everything is politics. Because I consider myself pretty far left, but I don't think I've ever been called an SJW. I think SJW started out as an insult hurled at people on the left who preached moral sociopolitics from a condescending position, mainly dealing with traditionally marginalized groups, without having the knowledge to back up their claims. Probably containing a little bit of hypocrisy. While it's true that many people who would fit this are on the left, a great many of them don't really care about any of the other issues that the Far Left focuses on.
Those are the ones who the term was created about and the term was probably used properly for about an hour and thirty minutes before it became the most popular insult on the internet used by white boys who are upset that they can't use the words faggot, retard and pussy anymore without getting called out. Now, I'm not saying everyone who uses the term is a racist, sexist, homophobe. But most of the racist, sexist, homophobes who I have met on the internet use the term like its currency and it does certainly make me take the opinion of the person I'm talking to with a grain of salt.