Walt Loved Hitler So Why Doesn't Disney Just Cancel Themselves Since They're Going This Far?

Written By BlabberBuzz | Wednesday, 10 March 2021 04:30 PM
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Popular Disney movies such as Dumbo, The Aristocats, Peter Pan, and Swiss Family Robinson, will now be unavailable to younger viewers' accounts on streaming service Disney Plus, according to The New York Post.

Initially, the movies were preceded with a warning that they covered "negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now. Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together."

Children need cultural education. Surely, some children's movies from past-times can be discriminating and somewhat offensive, though it is important to understand that these movies are part of an unbreakable movie-set each person has to see for the benefit of his own culture.

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Children’s movies have long been scrutinized for their "outdated" and "stereotypical" depictions of other cultures. Disney posted their reason for blocking the films to watchers under 7 on their Stories Matter site, which said "We can't change the past, but we can acknowledge it, learn from it and move forward together to create a tomorrow that today can only dream of."

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Disney flagged The Aristocats because one of the cats "is depicted as a racist caricature of East Asian peoples with exaggerated stereotypical traits such as slanted eyes and buck teeth." According to the site, Dumbo not only includes crows who "pay homage to racist minstrel shows, where white performers with blackened faces and tattered clothing imitated and ridiculed enslaved Africans on Southern plantations" but also stereotyped black workers in the Song of the Roustabouts.

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Disney stated that Peter Pan "portrays Native people in a stereotypical manner that reflects neither the diversity of Native peoples nor their authentic cultural traditions." Stories Matter added that the pirates in Swiss Family Robinson are "portrayed as a stereotypical foreign menace," with their clothing "reinforcing their barbarism and 'otherness.'"

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While Disney claimed they are "in the process of reviewing our library and adding advisories to content that includes negative depictions or mistreatment of people or cultures," they defended filming the 2020 remake of Mulan in the region of China where the genocide of the Uyghur Muslims is said to be taking place in the name of "authenticity."

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Something also worth notifying is that Walt Disney himself was a vocal Nazi supporter, so other than the possibility that some of the movies can be offensive toward certain populations, the company still uses his Disney's name. So if it is that important for Disney to educate children, they should be reminded that the entire company is based upon a name that also represents something wrong.

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