The wave we are most familiar with started around 2012.
It got heavier in 2014.
Then they went absolutely warp speed in 2016 with it when they realized it wasn't working, so they had to make it seem normal at all cost.
If you give them the ammunition that it was always there chud just accept that you were wrong about everything and it's always been leftist/social justice/etc, you too are using today's lens to look at the past and examine what is and what is not acceptable.
There might be echoes of similarity in the past, but that was the stand out, not the norm. I am willing to bet people would have noticed this bullshit much earlier if it was everywhere and all the time, instead of just one or two episodes in a long running show.
It was meant more of a way to make a character feel more accepted or more encouraged. If you conflate the "If you try, you can achieve it, we believe in you" mantra episodes from shows of the 50s and 60s with their socjus, that's unhelpful. It was meant more to motivate people to be more independent and self reliant, critical thinking.
I'd say the current wave started around 2007/8 when schools throughout the entire Anglosphere banned words like "gay" and "retarded", which most of the time weren't meant with malice, from the classroom and playground alike. Banning indoor smoking also contributed greatly to the pussification of our present society.
Definitely picked up with all the bullshit surrounding Chic-Fil-A around the time of gay marriage being made legal (plus "bake the cake bigot"), and Lena Dunham's "Girls" hitting TV. By Gamergate, it was already full steam ahead because they had the media connections and we weren't yet ready to admit the whole system was rotten from the inside out.
The wave we are most familiar with started around 2012.
It got heavier in 2014.
Then they went absolutely warp speed in 2016 with it when they realized it wasn't working, so they had to make it seem normal at all cost.
If you give them the ammunition that it was always there chud just accept that you were wrong about everything and it's always been leftist/social justice/etc, you too are using today's lens to look at the past and examine what is and what is not acceptable.
There might be echoes of similarity in the past, but that was the stand out, not the norm. I am willing to bet people would have noticed this bullshit much earlier if it was everywhere and all the time, instead of just one or two episodes in a long running show.
It was meant more of a way to make a character feel more accepted or more encouraged. If you conflate the "If you try, you can achieve it, we believe in you" mantra episodes from shows of the 50s and 60s with their socjus, that's unhelpful. It was meant more to motivate people to be more independent and self reliant, critical thinking.
I'd say the current wave started around 2007/8 when schools throughout the entire Anglosphere banned words like "gay" and "retarded", which most of the time weren't meant with malice, from the classroom and playground alike. Banning indoor smoking also contributed greatly to the pussification of our present society.
Definitely picked up with all the bullshit surrounding Chic-Fil-A around the time of gay marriage being made legal (plus "bake the cake bigot"), and Lena Dunham's "Girls" hitting TV. By Gamergate, it was already full steam ahead because they had the media connections and we weren't yet ready to admit the whole system was rotten from the inside out.