So I'm watching a YouTube video of a guy going through and reviewing every episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark, the 90's Nickelodeon kids horror anthology show. It's a show I remember fondly from when I was a kid, and the review video is pretty great. But one thing seeing all these clips really jumps out at me. The sheer amount of racemixing couples that were in various episodes. I've seen like 5 or 6 black guy/White girl 'relationships' so far, and I'm only at season 2. It's the usual 'oooooo she has a crush' kid shit, but it's the amount of it that is jumping out at me now. 12yo me of course never noticed, but now that I'm seeing again, and knowing how rare it was in real life back then for White girls to date blacks, I can't help but suspect this sort of thing was included on purpose to normalize it, even decades before what we now see as the 'woke' era.
Can you think of any other examples of things that you didn't notice at the time, but looking back you realize they were attempts to push woke ideology long before it was known as such?
In the 80s I read reporting that people had discovered a new theory taught by a couple professors on a couple college campuses that made absolutely no sense but it needed to be shown how strange professors had gotten. They had invented something they called "political correctness". At that time it was basically starting with the idea of being polite and then upending it to make the offended person omnipotent over everyone else. Clearly nobody could live life like that, so these outliers were ignored as they couldn't possibly affect the Reagan boom. Around that time The Jeffersons and Diff'rent Strokes were regarded as just balanced racial representation, and every now and then a sitcom would out a gay character or put characters in a casual sex situation (stolen from soaps). By 1990 the AFA was warning us about boiling frogs but they made a couple errors in their evaluations of less-than-provable Disney suspicions so everyone still gave culture a pass. Happy Days, Wonder Years, Good Times.
The term Politically Correct is Soviet.
There is factually correct, which is actually true. Then there is Politically Correct, which isn't true, but we will all pretend it is because of political reasons.
People who ignored the political truth went to the gulag.
I was gonna say, SwampRangers is mis-remembering shit because Political Correctness wasn't invented, it was imported.
The AFA? You mean the American Family Association?
The late Donald Wildmon and his son Tim deserve so much more credit for fighting for values than they get.