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minus-squareTwoBeeSan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up39arrow-down3·5 months agoTHAT CARTOON CHARACTER HAS MELANIN ON WHAT EARTH IS THIS OK?!?!?!?
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·5 months agoHasn’t Disney had Poc characters since the 90s, hence predating the term woke by several decades?
minus-squareDuamerthrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·edit-25 months agoWell, Disney has had POC characters since at least 1946, but we don’t talk about that one.
minus-squareboonhet@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 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-squareDuamerthrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 months agohttps://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-up1·5 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-squareandros_rex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-25 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.
THAT CARTOON CHARACTER HAS MELANIN
ON WHAT EARTH IS THIS OK?!?!?!?
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.