Posted on 12/04/2022 11:51:31 AM PST by lowbridge
Even Disney theme parks aren’t immune from the onslaught of wokism.
In January, Disney is finally closing its iconic Splash Mountain attraction at Disneyland in California and Disney World in Florida (“The Magic Kingdom”), with the company’s bosses citing historical concerns in canning one of the parks’ most popular attractions.
The reason? Splash Mountain’s current theme draws inspiration from the 1946 Disney film “Song of the South,” which depicts life on a plantation after slavery’s abolition, according to Fox Business.
Disney’s returning CEO has previously singled out “Song of the South” as cause for concern.
“I’ve felt, as long as I’ve been CEO, that ‘Song of the South’ was – even with a disclaimer – was just not appropriate in today’s world,” Disney CEO Bob Iger said in 2020, the year the company announced the change was coming, according to Fox Business.
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“Mr. Bluebird on my shoulder...”
Well, zip a dee doo dah.
Everything in the park is cultural appropriation of some sort, close bit all down.
It’s supposedly been banned and locked in the Disney vault for 30 years, but you can watch the whole movie here:
https://archive.org/details/SongOfTheSouth_Disney
> If one wanted to, Cinderella and a lot of the other Disney characters could be found to be culturally incorrect and racist in one form or another. <
Yep. And that’s true of anything and anyone. That doesn’t mean that everything and everyone is racist. It means if you look hard enough and are willing to twist things a certain way, you can find racism where it really doesn’t exit.
It would be something if it were found that Walt Disney himself once fired a black guy for no good reason. Then they’d have to change “Disneyland” to some other name.
That’s why I own a DVD of Blazing Saddles.
Boy, it must really suck to be so thin skinned and fragile that you’re triggered by a Disney ride.
Maybe they’ll call it Pedo Mountain? FU Disney.
Iger? Meet the kid boss again. This POS is responsible for much of the nonsense.
Thanks! That is a better copy!
Ref my last post, GMTA and sometimes at the very same time lol.
Everybody loved Uncle Remus. It was a great movie. Better than most of the %^^& coming out of Hollyweird nowadays.
A fellow Freeper graciously made a copy for me about 20 years ago. Unfortunately, I no longer have the VHS tape or a VHS player. Nothing racist about it. Unwoke, yes. Racist, no
I think Disney’s current hierarchy folks in the board room do not like black people from way back when and from now and would like them all to disappear. They certainly do not want them to own firearms.
I FINALLY got to see this movie.
OK, I get they don’t like blacks being depicted “stereotypically”. But then, they don’t like when blacks are depicted other ways…that would be “unrealistic and downplaying the racism they faced” (see complaints about “Good Times” and “Cosby Show”).
But the black people are nice and accommodating, and the white boy likes the man. And the white boy becomes playmates with the black boy who gives him a toad. They sing together at the end of the story, going on playing integrated along with the white-trash girl.
BTW, the white-trash girl is shown as dealing with bully older brothers, who also pick on the main white boy.
So the worst people in this movie are white.
So glad our friend had this movie and we could watch it. ALWAYS long ago the Zip-e-dee-do-dah was shown on Disney specials - but NEVER showed the movie as a whole.
I am sure it will be replaced with a new ride “Little Boys are Toys”.
I think they self-banned it much longer than that.
But only in the US.
I never saw a single showing or tape copy of it in 50 years until this year when our friend brought us one.
Should we add incestuous to that?
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