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stagmanparty:takashi0:ivantheinedible:siryouarebeingmocked:uchanekome:bogleech:celtic-pyro:princess-has-a-pen:rabbittiddy:colorsofsocialjustice:Seriously though, what happened to this sort of thing? These shows were popular and no one paid any attention to the people who complained about them (if there were any) on the inclusion of race. And these are just examples of animated series, there were a slew of live action shows too that fit this bill as well, where people were able to understand issues over racial divides because everyone was treated (more or less) like equals. I really wish I knew what changed, because it was a shitty one that made the quality of TV go downhill pretty fast. - PurpleIf you look at when it changed, you’ll find it’s when we actually hit a low in politics being a major defining factor of how a person was, likely X Studies classes in colleges were at a tenure frightening low, and the ideas of hipsters were mocked by your average person.I first found out around the time I saw that glaring TIME Magazine cover in 2014, but the pissants who complained over that one episode of The Powerpuff Girls didn’t strangle TV until 2015-2016. Also, I’m pretty sure people weren’t waving it in the public’s face just how “inclusive” and “diverse” these shows were. Nobody was giving you a whole cover spread in People magazine about That’s So Raven and The Proud Family, they were just there and people watched it.Nowaydays it’s like the whole point is to make someone angry or spark a reaction. Representation has turned into an exhibitionist cult where everyone has to make a huge deal about “Hey look, this character is black!” “Look, we made this character a woman!” instead of just letting them be people.Wow this thread takes such an abruptly bad turn and is so rife with cultural amnesia.Every single one of the cartoons shown here and hundreds of others all the way back to the 70′s were attacked by the right wing as “Liberal PC culture.” The Powerpuff Girls angered christian parents for having little girls engage in violence, which they felt would be perfectly fine for little boy characters. The presence of casual black characters in shows like Rugrats and Hey Arnold was mercilessly ridiculed as “Tokenism” and part of a “Forced Diversity Agenda,” and yes, there were people saying this about the very existence of the Proud Family at all. Such critics usually felt that all these “race and gender politics” were non-existent during their own pure, wholesome childhood, when they watched shows like….Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound, I guess.In just 2005, which to me feels like a week ago, a Christian conservative group called “Focus on the Family” went to war with Spongebob Squarepants entirely because he appeared alongside many other characters in a kid’s video singing the song “We Are Family.” The video was funded by a group that believed in tolerance of different races and sexual orientations, so Focus on the Family seethed that Spongebob was being used as a weapon of The Gay Agenda to corrupt their children.These trends began before I was born and has not only never stopped, but has gotten louder and louder. You only think it wasn’t an issue in the 90′s because you either weren’t born yet or it wasn’t visible to you. If you had the internet, there still wasn’t any open social media where ideas went “viral;” only self-contained chat rooms and webforums.Newer media isn’t being “more exhibitionist” about diversity. It isn’t even much more diverse. People are simply more defensive of it, and entering a defense mode quicker than ever, because that hyper-sensitive conservative outrage continues to get louder and more irrational by the day.As kids we didn’t notice the hate surrounding things we loved because we were kids. We didn’t watch the news. We avoided that shit like the plague. Parents who didn’t want their kids to watch certain things would limit when they could watch TV, or come up with other excuses. Because they couldn’t say why it made THEM uncomfortable. Truth is racism has been everywhere. If your not a victim of it, you’re either the source of it, or blind to it. In the case that you’re blind you can eventually become aware and learn how to try stop it, or you remain in your ignorant shell. You’d be surprised how many people end up as the latter.“Everything was always racist and you just didn’t notice” seems a lot like cultlike thinking.Especially when Doug had multicolored characters specifically to avoid racial prejudices. >And people still try to call that racist<.>Every single one of the cartoons shown here and hundreds of others all the way back to the 70′s were attacked by the right wing as “Liberal PC culture.” I’m sure you’re going to provide a lot of evidence for this.Oh, wait, no, you didn’t provide any. You named one specific, checkable example and acted like it represented a widespread phenomenon. I’d bet money you didn’t even try to verify your other examples, you just went on memory.These days, everyone has some kind of hot take about how something was or is racist or sexist. The Powerpuff Girls aired at a time where graphic violence in kids cartoons was downplayed in general. Heck, even in the 2000s Teen Titans still couldn’t use the word ‘kill’ literally.You’re also ignoring how feminists - including Sarkeesian - complained about Femme Fatale. The character is meant to represent how some women use feminism as an excuse for their own selfish actions.Your entire post is just an elaborate “NO U”.>Newer media isn’t being “more exhibitionist” about diversity. It isn’t even much more diverse. People are simply more defensive of it, and entering a defense mode quicker than ever, because that hyper-sensitive conservative outrage continues to get louder and more irrational by the day.Right. Because we didn’t see people drooling over Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel and Birds of Prey - which is literally still going on as I type this - for being superhero movies with Female Protagonists™. We didn’t see them creating a new version of the Bechdel Test just so they could excuse Mako from Pacific Rim. We totally don’t see movies marketed on Diversity™, like Ghostbusters, Captain Marvel again, and Charlie’s Angels 2019. Black Panther wasn’t widely hyped by racial fetishists for being the first Marvel movie about a black hero, and its villain isn’t idolized by people who missed the entire point.Just a collective hallucination. Also>bogleech takes the slightest excuse to blame the ebil Conservatives for something Drink a shot.Bogleech returns to give such an ice-cold take that it flash froze the room.I saw Dobson get his filthy paws on this post too, Woke NeoLibs big mad. I think the conversation got derailed somewhere cause the original tweet is clearly about those people that keep yelling “where´s muh representation? we never existed!!” and then showing a bunch of cartoons that count as diverse, a debate that we can have all day cause we can encounter “diverse” cartoon all the way into the 70s and then argue over which group get more, less or none representation…But yeah cartoons have always been the target of stupidity, the smurfs were accused of being communist propaganda, He-man was accused of promoting witchcraft and indeed Spongebob was persecuted for “promoting the gay agenda” and similar stupidty like I don´t think anybody is denying that…however the internet and media from 20 years ago was very different, you really didn´t hear about these things other than in passing but nowdays you get bombarbed by it on everything through social media.Unless you know how to navigate it well you´re gonna end up hearing these speeches everywhere which certainly wasn´t the case in said the 90s like u just watched nickelodeon and were done with it….Those are days to remember…That feel when they literally draw the line from their current actions, back to the conservative pearl-clutching right wing ass-hats of the 80s and 90s without a shred of realization. -- source link
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