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minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·11 个月前Hasn’t Disney had Poc characters since the 90s, hence predating the term woke by several decades?
minus-squareDuamerthrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·edit-211 个月前Well, Disney has had POC characters since at least 1946, but we don’t talk about that one.
minus-squareboonhet@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·11 个月前… 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-squareDuamerthrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 个月前https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_the_South Which is best known for the Zip a Dee Doo Dah song.
minus-squareandros_rex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 个月前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.
minus-squareandros_rex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-211 个月前The term woke is at least around 100 years old. It was specifically a reminder to stay “woke” (awake) of the threat of lynching.
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·11 个月前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.
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.