My ex in the early 2000s was at the time a member of an Eurasian alliance to campaign for proper representation of Asian people in the entertainment industry as there was a habit of casting white or racially ambiguous but not Asian persons in roles that were specifically written as Asian characters, and if their particular ethnicity (e.g. Malaysian) was specified, to cast someone of that ethnicity and not just generic Asian (e.g. Chinese).
So maybe not everyone - but from personal experience, it was very much a concern to many people before that time, yes.
My ex in the early 2000s was at the time a member of an Eurasian alliance to campaign for proper representation of Asian people in the entertainment industry as there was a habit of casting white or racially ambiguous but not Asian persons in roles that were specifically written as Asian characters, and if their particular ethnicity (e.g. Malaysian) was specified, to cast someone of that ethnicity and not just generic Asian (e.g. Chinese).
So maybe not everyone - but from personal experience, it was very much a concern to many people before that time, yes.
That’s great, but it doesn’t change that the masses didn’t care at the time.
Personally, I’d call an edge-lord comedian turned social advocate using his massive platform to speak up against fascism a win for progressives.