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I’ve seen some YouTube videos and they’ve destroyed the X-Men 97 cartoon with wokeness. Something else from my childhood that they’ve destroyed.

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I get what people mean with wokeness but that feels especially ironic. X-Men was basically woke when that was still not a dirty word, a bunch of the characters were supposed to be from different kinds of minorities such as race, sexuality, disabled, etc., like basically Star Trek. You shouldn’t need any corporate “let’s add another black woman so that we can call anyone who doesn’t like our product racist!” stuff in X-Men of all things. Silly Evil Empire Disney.

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Feb 16Liked by Michaela McKuen

It was just normal. I remember watching it and just loving all the characters (except jubilee, her powers were useless.)

It had messaging BUT it never felt forced. Nothing from before the 2010’s ever seemed to have messaging that felt forced.

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Yeah. If anything I’d probably always have called X-Men fairly left wing if I had to place it but now it just all seems forced basically. I blame it on corporate garbage, not left or right. I read a Vox article recently that was like “stop calling Disney woke, they’re a conservative company,” but I don’t think that’s the best way to characterize it. It’s just corporate garage period, I don’t think left or right is the way to analyze it at all and I’m sure lots of people will get mad at me for that. I largely want to retire the word “woke” as well unless it’s obviously being used in a context where it’s OK because I think that’s just how corporations divide people. I don’t think megacorporations even care about left vs. right at this point, they care about feeding you garbage and ripping everyone off.

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For one thing the quote needs correction…

First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because Communists aren’t people.

Fixed it.

More to the point the dead parents thing is kind of hit or miss depending on what era of Disney you are looking at. I think that’s less of a thing now, Merida from Brave has two living parents, Miguel from Coco has two living parents, Moana has two living parents, Encanto is an entire extended family (well so is Coco). That said it always made sense to me that the protagonists often lost one or both parents because the likelihood you get yourself into enough trouble to make for an entertaining adventure seems lessened if you have two decent parents. I would honestly rather see a movie centered around dead parents than crappy parents, at least dead parents are usually honored.

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