Diversity Utopias Hide Coercion

Zootopia’s deleted 'taming' storyline—predators wearing shock collars—implies that a peaceful multi‑species city would need constant, unequal restraint. Disney removed this governance machinery to preserve a feel‑good moral, leaving viewers with a world that works without visible enforcement. Popular narratives may be teaching the public to expect social harmony without the costs and tradeoffs that make it possible. — If mass culture sanitizes the enforcement architecture behind pluralistic peace, voters and policymakers will systematically underestimate the governance required to manage real diversity.