Maybe not you specifically (although judging by your post the suggestion was there), but that's certainly what other posters here are getting at.
"we had good female characters, and also good characters of color in games and movies"
Not by that much, come on. I mean, it's kinda telling when people try to claim there were strong female characters in older blockbuster movies and they can only seem to name Sarah Conner, Ripley, and (sorta) Leia. And non-white characters definitely had it worse. There's a reason we mocked the "token black guy" trope because it was used badly back then when it was clear they were just thrown in without a thought. Maybe not all non-white characters today are written well but there's clearly more effort put into their characters nowadays, and likewise women characters are more active nowadays then they were back then.
Also, I must be remembering different older days of video games because I definitely do not remember many non-white/Asian characters in video games back then. Heck, I remember when GTA San Andreas came out some gamers were whining about being "forced" to play a black character which, beyond those comments being stupid, showed it was not a common practice back then.
Heck, there's still clear signs of discrimination with gamers, when the indie game Virginia came out which was first-person, it was only by playing the game that players discovered the character was a black woman which led to people furious that they had been "tricked" into playing her. Like, geezus, what is wrong with some people?!
