Vidya
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Inserted token representation has been a thing for a looong time.
I remember that in the 90s every elementary school textbook had to have a wheelchair kid in the illustrations. He was always somewhere.
Burger King Kids Club: Wheelz
The entire reason that DEI/ESG/whatever has had to undergo several rebrands is that 'tokenism' - which it is - is a well known negative term, a poisoned brand from the 80s and 90s. If Trey Parker and Matt Stone hadn't preserved it in the zeitgeist with 'Token Black', progressives would have an easier time trying to make people forget that tokenism is a disgraced practice, which they're constantly struggling to do.
They actually retconned that and his name is actually Tolkien Black and you were just a racist for thinking it was token. There is an episode about how Stan is an evil racist for thinking his name was Token.
Wow, crazy, I've missed so much SP. But there you go, it's a further effort to erase the failure of tokenism. Not that Stone and Parker are progressive allies, but they're uncomfortable being anyone's serious enemy.