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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•3 months agoHasn’t Disney had Poc characters since the 90s, hence predating the term woke by several decades?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•edit-23 months agoWell, Disney has had POC characters since at least 1946, but we don’t talk about that one.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•3 months ago… I want to talk about that one. I don’t know Disney history, wtf did they do in 1946? I’m assuming something super racist
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•3 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_the_South Which is best known for the Zip a Dee Doo Dah song.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•3 months agoThere’s also the original 1940 version of Fantasia. That Dumbo has a crow named “Jim” in a group of three behaving remarkably like minstrel show characters is also… unpleasant.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•edit-23 months agoThe term woke is at least around 100 years old. It was specifically a reminder to stay “woke” (awake) of the threat of lynching.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•3 months agoYes words come from places. Etymology is a thing. But ask anyone in the mainstream 1950s or 1990s, they will have no idea what “woke” means, in the cultural context of that time and place.
Hasn’t Disney had Poc characters since the 90s, hence predating the term woke by several decades?
Well, Disney has had POC characters since at least 1946, but we don’t talk about that one.
… I want to talk about that one. I don’t know Disney history, wtf did they do in 1946? I’m assuming something super racist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_the_South
Which is best known for the Zip a Dee Doo Dah song.
There’s also the original 1940 version of Fantasia.
That Dumbo has a crow named “Jim” in a group of three behaving remarkably like minstrel show characters is also… unpleasant.
The term woke is at least around 100 years old.
It was specifically a reminder to stay “woke” (awake) of the threat of lynching.
Yes words come from places. Etymology is a thing. But ask anyone in the mainstream 1950s or 1990s, they will have no idea what “woke” means, in the cultural context of that time and place.