Zootopia
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For anyone who hasn't seen it: In the movie, all animals, predator and prey, live peacefully in harmony in Zootopia. A lot of stereotypes still exist though, such as "sly foxes." And a lot of commanding positions are occupied by predators and large animals while prey animals take meeker roles. Then there's a string of crimes where predator animals go crazy and start attacking others around them. The obvious connection is made and the police start investigating whether the aggression is predator instincts coming out. But eventually they discover that it was caused by a poison that would make any animal go nuts, but it was being used on predators by the ewe character (the mayor's meek assistant) in order to sow conflict and get the predators deposed from their positions of power so she could rule instead.
I actually give the movie credit for doing a pretty mature job of exploring various aspects and possibilities of stereotyping, even though that would (and did) piss off some people. Some of the stereotypes bear out as pretty accurate. But others force animals to adopt those traits, like the main fox character who is a con artist basically because everyone else treats him like a con artist anyways. The main character is a classic naive liberal female who believes everyone is basically good and anyone can do anything, but she gets red-pilled pretty quick into realizing that some people do just commit crimes. In the end, of course, all the serious incompatibilities turn out to be fake or meaningless. But even that comes in the package of psychopath politicians manufacturing conflict so they can accrue power for themselves.
Zootopia may take an anti-racist position, but at least it actually faces the question to some degree.
For example the bunny's own parents (also bunnies obviously) also told her not to be a cop. it wasn't just others saying she's a bunny and can't do it, but her own family/kind saying it too. And to be honest at first she sucked at her job. And through special contrivances and accomodations she was able to eek out some success and that's basically "hey women suck at this but if we give them a gun, a ton of training, and a male partner, maybe she can be semi decent". So it's not the girl boss shines moment that maybe it was intended to be.
Maybe it wasn't made to be based. But it was inadvertently dispensing red pills.