And the only way it usually changes is for the targeted minority group to complain about it, sue, protest, boycott, legislate, whatever the appropriate avenue might be. And sometimes you just want to buy a damn record without having to go through all that.
A friend of mine put this much more concisely years ago, although I’m still probably mangling the quote: “I just want to be able to take a crap without it having to be a political act.” She uses a wheelchair, so the crap in question is still far too frequently the source of high political drama.