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<blockquote data-quote="Alsos" data-source="post: 1002124" data-attributes="member: 8894">Television too, but more blatantly, starting (at least) with the CBS Country Massacre of 1971. The obvious example is &quot;All in the Family&quot;, in which traditional values and roles were mocked and shamed as ignorant and hypocritical (though in that case the earnest SJWery backfired, because the character to be pilloried was far more sympathetic than the intended &quot;moral center&quot; of the show). Pretty much every Norman Lear production was an SJW message vehicle, in which whatever Big Issue (racism, rape, abortion, teen pregnancy, teen suicide, sexual abuse, domestic violence, antisemitism, etc.) could be inserted, was. He walked right up to the line of what was socially permissible for TV at the time, and moved that line as much as he could get away with. And Lear himself proudly states that it was done intentionally, vs. as an innocent reflection of currents in the culture, art made to pull the culture towards what we would now identify as SJWism.By the early 1980s you have several shows featuring SJW themes that would have been unthinkable a decade earlier: - single motherhood (&quot;Alice&quot;, &quot;One Day at a Time&quot;)- flamboyant/camp homosexuality (&quot;Too Close for Comfort&quot;)- homosexuality as something actually more morally acceptable than platonic co-ed living arrangements (&quot;Three's Company&quot;)- cross-dressing/transgenderism (&quot;Bosom Buddies&quot;)- immigration (&quot;Chico and the Man&quot;)- mixed families/interracial adoption (&quot;Diff'rent Strokes&quot;)- elective abortion (&quot;Rhoda&quot;)- you-go-girlism (&quot;Maude&quot; among others)...and I'm sure many other examples I'm forgetting. Note how these are comedies or comedy-dramas: a spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down, and plausible deniability if challenged.It's not as though some of these themes hadn't been explored before (think of the Strong Woman-ism and single motherhood in &quot;The Big Valley&quot;, for example), or that they should have been studiously and unrealistically ignored. The problem isn't in the issues per se, but that as themes they were systematically and deliberately pushed with an increasingly heavy hand so as to 'educate the idiots', with the explicit intention of undermining traditional norms through shaming and ridicule and steering the culture towards acceptance of behaviors and practices traditionally shunned as dyscivic or dysfunctional. Sound familiar? It's SJWism without the pink-haired moonbat extremes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alsos, post: 1002124, member: 8894"] Television too, but more blatantly, starting (at least) with the CBS Country Massacre of 1971. The obvious example is "All in the Family", in which traditional values and roles were mocked and shamed as ignorant and hypocritical (though in that case the earnest SJWery backfired, because the character to be pilloried was far more sympathetic than the intended "moral center" of the show). Pretty much every Norman Lear production was an SJW message vehicle, in which whatever Big Issue (racism, rape, abortion, teen pregnancy, teen suicide, sexual abuse, domestic violence, antisemitism, etc.) could be inserted, was. He walked right up to the line of what was socially permissible for TV at the time, and moved that line as much as he could get away with. And Lear himself proudly states that it was done intentionally, vs. as an innocent reflection of currents in the culture, art made to [i]pull[/i] the culture towards what we would now identify as SJWism. By the early 1980s you have several shows featuring SJW themes that would have been unthinkable a decade earlier: - single motherhood ("Alice", "One Day at a Time") - flamboyant/camp homosexuality ("Too Close for Comfort") - homosexuality as something actually [i]more morally acceptable[/i] than platonic co-ed living arrangements ("Three's Company") - cross-dressing/transgenderism ("Bosom Buddies") - immigration ("Chico and the Man") - mixed families/interracial adoption ("Diff'rent Strokes") - elective abortion ("Rhoda") - you-go-girlism ("Maude" among others) ...and I'm sure many other examples I'm forgetting. Note how these are comedies or comedy-dramas: a spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down, and plausible deniability if challenged. It's not as though some of these themes hadn't been explored before (think of the Strong Woman-ism and single motherhood in "The Big Valley", for example), or that they should have been studiously and unrealistically ignored. The problem isn't in the issues [i]per se[/i], but that as themes they were systematically and deliberately pushed with an increasingly heavy hand so as to 'educate the idiots', with the explicit intention of undermining traditional norms through shaming and ridicule and steering the culture towards acceptance of behaviors and practices traditionally shunned as dyscivic or dysfunctional. Sound familiar? It's SJWism without the pink-haired moonbat extremes. [/QUOTE]

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