Doctor Who Race Swaps ‘Toymaker’ Character to White Man So They Can Make Him Racist

Doctor Who changed the ethnicity of the Toymaker character from Asian to a white German man so they could make him racist, according to the show’s head writer.

The third and final episode of the 60th anniversary Doctor Who specials was broadcast last night on BBC One.

However, the Toymaker character, who was originally East Asian/Chinese in his original incarnation, was turned into a white German man.

This was done so that the character could act racist, according to head writer Russell T Davies.

“Today we live in a diverse society where cultural appropriation is not acceptable, so the 2023 Toymaker is a white character portrayed by a white actor,” states a voiceover explaining the change.

“However, as a way of signaling his pure evil and in acknowledgement of his past, Russell’s toymaker still has a clear and deliberate racist aspect.”

Davies explained that “people would say in 1966 this was a racist character and if we haven’t acknowledged that in some way, we’re ignorant.”

In order to avoid “whitewashing” the character, in the new episode he imitates foreign accents and mainly speaks in a German accent (presumably Germans who might be upset at this act of cultural appropriation don’t count).

In one scene, the Toymaker addresses a brown man by saying, “I do apologize for the rain outside, you must be used to sunnier climes.”

The brown man responds by saying, “I was born in Cheltenham” (a town in England).

The original character wasn’t even racist but decades later people complained that choosing a white actor to play him was “yellowface” racism.

Ironically, this is one of the very rare examples where race swapping characters actually ends up with a white person getting the role, but only to ensure the character could be portrayed as racist.

Presumably, hiring a Chinese actor to portray a racist would have led to accusations of racism.

Incredible.

The race swap takes on an added irony given that in the previous episode, Sir Isaac Newton, a white English man born in 1642, was played by an actor with Indian heritage.

As we previously highlighted, all three of the new Doctor Who anniversary specials have pushed some incarnation of “the message”.

In the first episode, David Tennant’s character was scolded for assuming an alien’s pronouns by a transgender character.

In another clip, the Doctor is browbeaten once again for being a “male-presenting timelord” and not understanding in the same way that female Doctors would.

In the second episode, it was heavily implied that Doctor Who is actually gay.

They really went all out with the social engineering.

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