It was trash by the 90's, because that's when "Captain Planet and the Planeteers" came out. It would be woke even by today's standards. The 90's were awful.
I think a lot of people forgot, or were too young to remember (or were just plain born after), the political correctness craze of the '90s. That was where the War on Christmas started, Stanford developed a speech code which wouldn't at all be out of place in any of today's woke colleges but got struck down in a court case in 1995, the seeds of bullshit like Afrocentrism which had been planted in the '60s were starting to really bear fruit, race riots like the 1992 one in LA still happened, and animation definitely wasn't spared.
Even setting aside obvious examples like Captain Planet, '90s animation had its share of 'diverse' Mary Sue characters being shoved in to show up the existing cast and/or lecture the kids watching in a heavy-handed manner ('very special episodes' relating to race, sex, etc.). The pushers of that garbage had to back off somewhat after political correctness got major pushback from society at the time and rendered a public joke, but as is obvious now they didn't permanently fuck off, they just laid low until a more favorable sociocultural environment had been manufactured by their allies in the education system who were allowed to fester like a gangrenous wound this entire time.
It was trash by the 90's, because that's when "Captain Planet and the Planeteers" came out. It would be woke even by today's standards. The 90's were awful.
I think a lot of people forgot, or were too young to remember (or were just plain born after), the political correctness craze of the '90s. That was where the War on Christmas started, Stanford developed a speech code which wouldn't at all be out of place in any of today's woke colleges but got struck down in a court case in 1995, the seeds of bullshit like Afrocentrism which had been planted in the '60s were starting to really bear fruit, race riots like the 1992 one in LA still happened, and animation definitely wasn't spared.
Even setting aside obvious examples like Captain Planet, '90s animation had its share of 'diverse' Mary Sue characters being shoved in to show up the existing cast and/or lecture the kids watching in a heavy-handed manner ('very special episodes' relating to race, sex, etc.). The pushers of that garbage had to back off somewhat after political correctness got major pushback from society at the time and rendered a public joke, but as is obvious now they didn't permanently fuck off, they just laid low until a more favorable sociocultural environment had been manufactured by their allies in the education system who were allowed to fester like a gangrenous wound this entire time.
Yes, that's what Demolition Man satirized. Before people got woke, they were politically correct.