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Iconic Disney Ride Set to Close in Less Than 2 Months Due to Being 'Not Appropriate in Today's World'
Western Journal ^ | December 4, 2022 | Richard Moorhead

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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To: Graybeard58

Exactly. But racists make it bad.

Uncle Tom was explained well in a “Jeffersons” episode.

They ignore that UT was just self-sacrificing so others could be free.

But no, they prefer the Nat turner terror approach.


61 posted on 12/04/2022 12:41:26 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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To: lowbridge

The copyright protection for Mickey Mouse and many other characters expires in 2024, the latest extension that Disney got. You can be sure the money will flow again to make sure none of that can get in public domain and there will be another extension.


62 posted on 12/04/2022 12:43:27 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: lowbridge

Just close Disney


63 posted on 12/04/2022 12:44:21 PM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: lowbridge

Meanwhile you’ll find used condoms on the bathrooms floors in Adventureland.


64 posted on 12/04/2022 12:44:27 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: lowbridge
So... Disney CEO, who's returning to the job, is claiming he always felt the ride was racist but is going to wait 60 days to shut it down? If it was really racist, he'd shut it down immediately.

How many "people of color" rode on it all these decades? I didn't realize that part of the ride was forcing people to use it.

Bob Iger is a virtue-whining race agitator who's using fake racism as an excuse to discontinue a ride that's losing money.

65 posted on 12/04/2022 12:50:47 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Altura Ct.

Disney should move to some large democrat city... kids are so stressed by constant crime and violence in those places they don’t even need to be broken to be groomed.

Inner city Detroit, Philadelphia, St.Louis, Chicago... so many democrat hellhole cities. Hell, even the once beautiful San Francisco... anyone afraid to drive and park could be dubbed ‘racist’ or a ‘phobe’ of some kind. That’s a twofer - being able to express hated toward the American families who have supported Disney all these years.

Disney would be swimming in WOKEville paradise.


66 posted on 12/04/2022 12:54:42 PM PST by GOPJ (Has Biden had dinner with an anti-evangelical? Will Schumer condemn him if he has?)
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To: rightwingcrazy

I do wish people would stop calling the Democrats the Party of Slavery. That is very crude IMHO. It is more, umm, the Party of Plentiful Provisions on the Plantation and Punishment for Those Not on the Plantation.


67 posted on 12/04/2022 12:55:45 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: lowbridge
They are just cancelling/erasing black culture.

"Uncle Remus is the fictional title character and narrator of a collection of African American folktales compiled and adapted by Joel Chandler Harris and published in book form in 1881. Harris was a journalist in post-Reconstruction era Atlanta, and he produced seven Uncle Remus books. He wrote these stories in order to represent the struggles of African Americans in the Southern United States, and more specifically, he wrote them in order to represent the struggles of African Americans on the plantations. He did so by introducing tales that he had heard and framing them in the plantation context. He wrote his stories in a dialect which was his interpretation of the Deep South African-American language of the time. For these framing and stylistic choices, Harris's collection has garnered controversy since its publication."
Source https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Remus

68 posted on 12/04/2022 12:56:54 PM PST by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: lowbridge

Song of the South is based on “Tales of Uncle Remus”, which is a collection of African American folktales. So, they are basically cancelling African American culture.


69 posted on 12/04/2022 1:15:25 PM PST by throwthebumsout
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To: CatHerd

Thank you so much for that link. I do not think I have ever seen that movie before.

https://archive.org/details/SongOfTheSouth_Disney


70 posted on 12/04/2022 1:15:44 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: lowbridge

Can they retheme the ride using the Star Wars Holiday Special? It’s buried in the Disney vault almost as deeply as Song of the South.


71 posted on 12/04/2022 1:17:06 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Soon the January 6 protesters will be held (without trial or bail) longer than Jefferson Davis was.)
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To: CatHerd

Thanks


72 posted on 12/04/2022 1:17:09 PM PST by ArcadeQuarters (Remember the 2020 backstabbers. No more RINOs ever!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The ironic thing is Uncle Remus tales, br’r rabbit, are based on authentic African tales handed down from slaves from their homeland.

Can’t have real history taught but you can have “Woman King” that fought to end slavery(fake)


73 posted on 12/04/2022 1:17:43 PM PST by RedMonqey
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To: lowbridge

went to disney world once long ago and rode it. I was a fun ride for the family.

Too bad, because there was nothing wrong with that ride or the money which I got a bootleg dvs copy of ages ago.


74 posted on 12/04/2022 1:18:41 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: lowbridge

Zippity Do Da. A little blue bird told me to avoid everything Disney,


75 posted on 12/04/2022 1:19:56 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: sjmjax

The Wakanda Wonderland sodomite express.


76 posted on 12/04/2022 1:20:17 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: ArcadeQuarters

really really cute movie that won Oscars when they still meant something.


77 posted on 12/04/2022 1:20:52 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: lowbridge

Problem here is that by shutting down an attraction for a supposed racial portrayal, and they are not doing it with Mulan, Princess and the Frog, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Lilo and Stitch, Davey Crocket, One little Indian, Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Brave, Moana...there are more, then they are being inconsistent as each one of these was swamped in cultural and racial undertones. And in some cases, the plot was directly related to one of the two problem areas they are shutting down Splash Mountain for. The definition of hypocrisy and doing a very bad job of hiding their efforts to the gaining of worth using a lack of morales doing it.

wy69


78 posted on 12/04/2022 1:25:50 PM PST by whitney69
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To: Dilbert San Diego; All

Uncle Remus was the classic ‘wise elder’ who educated young people with Aesop like fables using animal figures as symbols of both good and evil characters. The fables emphasized how good people could defeat evil persons by using their wit to defeat brutal strength. Some of these tales have obvious West African origins such as the rabbit and the brier patch. Uncle Remus is a very flattering picture of how the truths of folk wisdom helped character development and how even the most powerless (slaves) can assert their humanity in the face of brute strength. These sorts of teaching aids ought be part of early childhood education, not stigmitized and villified.


79 posted on 12/04/2022 1:32:10 PM PST by robowombat
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To: the OlLine Rebel
"But only in the US."

Effing hypocrites...you could get discs anywhere except the US.

80 posted on 12/04/2022 1:36:48 PM PST by Wonder Warthog (Not Responding to Seagull Snark)
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