Times where woke changes undid other woke changes

[Agarathium1066]

And now I guess saying poc is racist too?

If a white person says it more than 5 times its racist. The never ending game of retard rocket tag continues. Eventually it will be polite to call them Niggy Wiggies until Steven Colbert makes some absolute cringefest of a statement about it then they'll want to be called Porch Monkeys.

 

[Lone MacReady II]

My favorite is the classic "coloureds".

Time was, you had to call black people coloureds, because calling them nigger was bad I guess.

Then coloureds was racist. They're black people! Or African-American! Only racists use the word coloured.

Then coloured suddenly returned, virtually overnight, when they became People of Color, or more generally, the hilariously slur-sounding POC (short, harsh word, that sounds like a noise you'd make when spitting or vomiting)

And now I guess saying poc is racist too?
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It's all hilarious if you have even an elementary school art class knowledge of "color theory". The actual color Black is literally The Absence of Color. You cannot send darkness through a prism to create the colors in the visible spectrum. You require White Light for that. Makes me laugh... and think. Blacks are the Antithesis of Color.

 

[Not A Bunny]

"Women's rights" and "troons' rights" are directly opposed. A great many rights troons claw from feminist women are rights feminists clawed from the traditions that made our nations successful. Leftism is its own worst enemy.

This shit is it for me. The troons turned me into a fucking feminist and someone needs to pay for that.

There was a time when there was a valid argument to say that women deserved certain things they didn't have and needed a little more social standing. Now we allow men to march into women's spaces and tell them to be fucking quiet because a "man" is talking. It's just that he gets to toss the word "marginalized" on top of it, and that's the magic word in liberal circles to make women shut up. It's not mansplaining if you claim to be a woman, you see.

The worst part is, it really is what feminists were complaining about for years. It's just that now the call is coming from inside the house.

I don't know if I'm imagining this, but I think that before 2016, criticizing hijabs was permitted, as long as you did it on feminist grounds.
Now hijabs are empowering, you racist white colonizer.

I live in a fairly boujie, moneyed part of the country (yes, predominantly white) and I noticed something strange while walking through a mall a few months ago:

"World Hijab Day".

Back when I was in college, a scant half-decade before September 11, there was chattering in feminist circles about how Islam treated women badly, and part of that problem was women being covered up so as to not tempt men. That seems to be the overwhelming rationale for the wearing of the hijab (is there really another reason?), so who is justifying that as "empowering"?

I mean, I suppose you might, if you're that woman who constantly complains about things like catcalling and daily sexual assault because life is just so difficult for women. But I'm of the opinion that during COVID, if Trump advocated for masking, you'd hear an overwhelming sentiment from the left would be that he did that because he's fulfilling a fantasy of seeing women covering their faces, so I'm not particularly shocked about the mercurial nature of this sort of thing.

I thought that was the Wacky Races or the Laugh Olympics or whatever they had, damn it I'm old.

One of my favorite episodes of South Park was the Wacky Races one. I'll be old with you.

 

[Thiletonomics]

It usually comes down to either degenerating ascending in the oppressing pyramid (white man -> black man -> woman -> gay -> tranny). Or removing a character that was woke for the time it was made but considered problematic nowadays for having flaws.

Also, the proliferation of Pajeets and Muslims to the mix, the various Black people fighting each other to see who's most oppressed (i.e. African American Blacks vs. Haitian Blacks vs. South African Blacks), and the addition of religion has also complicated the oppression pyramid. October 7 and the Israel-Iran attacks also have added more complications too.

I'm surprised that Pacific Islanders haven't been added to the mix yet. They seem to be contained to their respective islands though, i.e. Native Hawaiians that are still whining about how White Americans illegally seized a Sovereign Kingdom.

 

[Vriljami]

In 20 years this poster went from progressive to transmisandrist. Some poor soul posted this to reddit recently and they chimped out.

 

[Divine right to rule]

The whole "born this way" as a defense of faggots gave way to "Akssshually I felt like [MENTAL ILLNESS] yesterday, but now I feel more like [MADE-UP THING]. Claiming that sexual/gender identity should be consistent over time, is heckin' [WHATEVER]-phobic/ist!!"

The shitlibs are somewhat schizophrenic about this, using either of these mutually exclusive arguments as they see fit at the moment.

"Born this way" would have a limited runtime anyway, it is just an untrue position.
There may be a genetic aspect in homosexual, but it is most certainly not 100%, it has large cultural influences.
Troonism and co, even more so, which you could just summize by it never showing up in human history before the 20th century, except in gigantic sex-perverts or willful freaks.

 

[Rango Dango]

i'd say gender roles. people wanted to abolish gender roles or whatever, let husbands be househousbands and let the wives get a job and stuff like that. now we're back calling little boys girls for wanting to play with dolls/wear a dress.

 

[Fag Albert]

Another on my mind is the character Joe Jitsu, from a now nearly-forgotten Dick Tracy series. Literally the whole reason this character existed was because the creators were fighting against anti-Japanese sentiment by showing kids a heroic character who happened to also be Japanese.

There's a pretty similar situation with a novel/movie character from the 20's & 30's named Charlie Chan. Where the author talked about how wanting to make a character that bucked the trend of the "Sneaky chinaman", being inspired by a chinese man who worked as a detective in hawaii. Very thoughtful, even tempered character, pretty stand up dude all around. but you're still getting a lot of the broken "Confucius say" english.

Considered incredibly progressive for the time and while the character still garners a little sympathy these days for what he was trying to represent, 100% wouldn't fly these days, it's definitely interesting see how things change over time.

 

[Squawking Macaw]

Many non-white or "neurodivergent" characters are now criticized for not being portrayed by someone with the same race or mental illness. The directors behind ATLA said they regret hiring white voice actors for the original series.
It got especially retarded in the live action Lilo & Stitch where the main two Hawaiian leads were criticized for not being dark-skinned enough despite being the same race as the characters.

Eh, it's just a part of homo romance pandering, and it explains why it's so misogynistic. Most of the time it is done by and "" "" for"""" women in the audience but at the same time it tends to belittle or just eradicate female characters at the same time. Fujos are glad to throw away any female character or turn her into a side dyke, just so she wouldn't intervene with her cuckqueen fantasy.

Yeah, a female character being retconned from existence or killed off for the sake of a gay male ship is the telltale sign of fujoshit interference. Fujos are extremely misogynistic despite being women themselves, and they'll gladly sacrifice female characters on the altar of homosex.

It's all hilarious if you have even an elementary school art class knowledge of "color theory". The actual color Black is literally The Absence of Color. You cannot send darkness through a prism to create the colors in the visible spectrum. You require White Light for that. Makes me laugh... and think. Blacks are the Antithesis of Color.

Random art sperging: that's the case for light. But when working with paints, you have to mix every paint color to get black while a white canvas is the absence of color.

 

[Whatisgoingon]

In Persona 3 there was a scene where a tranny almost duped the MC and friends but they ran away in terror when they realized, making a joke out of the existence of trannies.
In the remake they changed that to a real woman with some other kind of baggage. So on one hand there's no more making fun of trannies as comically evil predators, on the other there's no trannies at all anymore

Another one from the Persona series is in the original P5, there's a couple of gay guys who comically chase after your best friend in the game, Ryuji, and try to molest him.

Naturally in the updated release, after backlash, they changed this to the much better option of the gay guys thinking Ryuji is a drag queen (who is a teenager in high school, mind you) and literally chasing after him to force women's clothing on him.

And the retarded thing is, it somehow worked. I stopped seeing complaints from most "woke" people in the persona community about those two comic relief, minor characters.

 

[The Nothingness]

DeviantArt, known for allowing people indulge in their fetishes to sticking it to the Christian right, now being "yeah, your image of Kaa hypnotizing a sexy fox girl is highly problematic and we're taking it down."

 

[2SLGBQTIA+ 2 Furious]

I can't say I was ever a Johnny Quest fan, yet I remember a couple of creepy 90s episodes with Medusa and the Easter Island statues.

Anyway, I've been reading the Doctor Who thread and this might be funnier for people less familiar with it:

In Doctor Who, UNIT is a military organisation which combats alien threats. The Doctor, a benevolent time-travelling alien drifter, will periodically work with UNIT to aid humanity. With the show being British, UNIT has traditionally been staffed by stuffy British military types who come into conflict with the Doctor, who will often do all he can to resolve situations non-violently.

In the last few years, UNIT has found itself staffed seemingly entirely by women, disabled people, troons and actual children. Has the change in personnel altered UNIT's approach? No, they all still have guns, including a dwarf child on a weaponised Segway.

The Doctor is now a gay black man. Since this development, the writing has provided us with none of the traditional friction between him and his human companion, the newest of whom is a south Asian nurse.

In the recent season finale (botched in numerous ways which I'll probably elaborate on in the Doctor Who thread) the Doctor battles one of his traditional enemies, a fellow Time Lord called the Rani. The Rani takes two forms simultaneously, an old white woman and another south Asian woman.

There are about ten different storylines going on at once, one of which is that the Rani has conjured a dream world, for reasons I won't go into, where the gay black Doctor and his south Asian companion have a black child who isn't real. This leads to the south Asian Rani delivering a spiel about how the black child is contaminated and not a pure Time Lord, which greatly offends the other characters. There are very strong hints this storyline was meant for the previous companion but was changed due to behind the scenes drama.

The Doctor's companion still believes the child is real and ends up living in an alternative reality in order to be with her. By enabling this, the Doctor upsets a lot fans on Twitter who see him as forcing a child on a previously career driven woman without her consent. In this alternative reality, the Doctor is no longer the child's father, meaning two black dads, one of whom is a time-travelling alien and the first black Doctor in the show's history, both walk out on the mother and daughter.

The Doctor then regenerates into his own companion from 20 years ago, a blonde white woman, amid declining ratings and an uncertain future.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

There is a manga and anime version of called Saint Seiya, featuring five main characters who are like knight fighters (I'm simplifying, don't get mad at me). The youngest one, Shun, is the softie of the group. He was always crying and he was also weak and didn't like to fight.

So, for years, because he's also designed very feminine (he's meant to be quite handsome, you know how Japan is about that...) people outside Japan mock him as being a pussy, effeminate, sissy, gay, etc.

Eventually, people became more defensive of him: he's also strong and while sensitive and against violence, he can really kick your ass if he's fighting for a noble cause. So, the message was that men can also be sensitive and that doesn't make them gay (he kinda had a girl in the anime) nor it means they're effeminate. While people still mock him a bit, there is less of "lol gay" stuff you see about him. It's like we moved on from there silly insult.

And then Netflix did a reboot and decided that Shun is now a girl. People were really mad.

 

[Garnet123]

There's a pretty similar situation with a novel/movie character from the 20's & 30's named Charlie Chan. Where the author talked about how wanting to make a character that bucked the trend of the "Sneaky chinaman", being inspired by a chinese man who worked as a detective in hawaii. Very thoughtful, even tempered character, pretty stand up dude all around. but you're still getting a lot of the broken "Confucius say" english.

Considered incredibly progressive for the time and while the character still garners a little sympathy these days for what he was trying to represent, 100% wouldn't fly these days, it's definitely interesting see how things change over time.

Not to speak of the movies, where Charlie Chan was played by a number of actors, none of whom were Chinese. The first two were Japanese American, but at the height of the character's popularity, he was played by non-East Asians, including the great Peter Ustinov. Today, the mere mention of this would cue an outcry of "yellowface", regardless of the actual performance.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Dot-Marie Jones was cast on Glee to play Coach Beiste and her intro was this very skilled and tough coach the students made fun of because she was masculine and not very attractive. She was even shown in a scene putting on lipstick like to show us she cared about her looks and was so sad, but she still tried. She then cried that she wasn't a lesbian, she liked men, but she was always teased and never had a boyfriend because of her appearance and she showed to be quite sensitive and nice when we met her better later. The actress was even nominated for an Emmy.

In later seasons, she finally got a man who beat her and her plot was that, even a strong woman could be a victim of domestic violence.

In the final season, they made her trans, destroying all her good development about how you don't need to be feminine to be a woman. Turns out she was a man all along.

 

[frozen_runner]

My favorite is the classic "coloureds".

Time was, you had to call black people coloureds, because calling them nigger was bad I guess.

Then coloureds was racist. They're black people! Or African-American! Only racists use the word coloured.

Then coloured suddenly returned, virtually overnight, when they became People of Color, or more generally, the hilariously slur-sounding POC (short, harsh word, that sounds like a noise you'd make when spitting or vomiting)

And now I guess saying poc is racist too?
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This endless euphemism treadmill is about making sure you, as a minority, continue wielding the social power to dictate the majority's speech to them. The power for your capricious feelings to control others is literally all it is.

 

[Hunter Hearst Helmsley]

This is everything they do. Everything conservatives protect is something that was originally implemented by some progressive of a previous era.

For woke media, one common example would be basically anyone who played a trans-identified character in a movie before current year decided only trans-identified people can play trans-identified roles.

 

[Standardized Profile]

The Doctor is now a gay black man.

A gay black man who dresses like Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz before transitioning regenerating into his ex-girlfriend:



Click here for unadulterated gender euphoria.

 

[BetterFuckChuck]

Doctor Who had a black woman Brigadier in the late 80s that was replaced with a white woman Brigadier who's the daughter of the original. That's pretty funny that they forgot they did that, so their woke change made it less woke