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TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hasn’t Disney had Poc characters since the 90s, hence predating the term woke by several decades?

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, Disney has had POC since at least 1946, but we don’t talk about that one.

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    • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_the_South

        Which is best known for the Zip a Dee Doo Dah song.

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      • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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.

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  • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The term woke is at least around 100 years old.

    It was specifically a reminder to stay “woke” (awake) of the threat of lunching.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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