That's exactly why I called the site Wokeku in the D&D movie thread. It is a very well known fact
"Stranger Things" is an interesting phenomenon. The show has only two POC character (Lucas and his sister, Erica) and one lesbian (Robin). The lesbian angle isn't "in your face" and her coming out scene was very sweet.
Maybe Will is gay but the jury is still out if he is in love with Mike or he simply yearns for the simpler days of their friendship and cannot adjust to the realities of growing up.
And all the characters of every age, gender and sexual inclination have to cooperate to win the day, with every one of them being flawed or damaged in some way (the opposite is true too: the actor who plays Jonathan protested with the writers that his character was totally negative, but no one in ST is totally good or evil; he was right and the writers put in his background that he was bullied too, leading to one of the key moments of season three).
And all the above led to
the escapist show of the last ten years.
Is the actor playing Lucas being targeted by racists? Of course, as a small percentage is endemic in every slice of populace. But no one involved in the show is so insane to attack their gigantic fandom over it. ST is the practical demonstration that "racism!" and "misogyny!" are the cries of the desperate, and that wokeness isn't the path to success. True, the
"Guardians Of Our Pop Culture" whine about these choices the show made. (*) Everyone else is enjoying it.
(*) For a fun experience, search with Google a random book, comic or movie/show (no matter the era) and add "problematic": you will always get hits. I just tried with "Little Women", "Jane Austen" and "Watership Down". Actually, scratch "fun": it is a sobering experience about how many lunatics have a megaphone these days.