Posted on 11/18/2019 8:11:20 AM PST by C19fan
A student has slammed classic Disney films for being 'horrendously outdated and offensive', claiming that the Jungle Book character King Louie is racist and that many of the animations have 'not aged well'.
Lauren Robertson re-watched 11 Disney favourites - accusing most of them of 'portraying racist and exaggerated stereotypes'.
The student, who studies languages at Aberdeen University, branded films such as Dumbo, The Lady and the Tramp and The Little Mermaid as 'dodgy'.
Addressing The Jungle Book, from 1967, Lauren, who is originally from Dunblane said: 'Remember King Louie the orangutan?
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Well-trained trigger bots.
Lets just Burn all the History that offends us ,LOL
You thought it would end with Song of the South.
Are we supposed to care what Lauren Robertson thinks about anything?
I find Lauren Robertson offensive and horrendously outdated.
He should read The Adventures of Huck Finn. :)
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Funny thing...I don’t recall asking her for her opinion.
someone has too much time on their hands
Somehow and in some way, this person must have been deprived of something important in order to have a worldview such as theirs.
Yawn...
Don’t let this little pu$$y ever get his hands on a copy of “Song of the South” his poor pathetic little head might explode.
Snowflake
Nope, sounds like Islam
One university student binge watches old Disney Films and it makes international news? We live in a fascinating world.
The voice of King Louie was Louis Prima, an Italian American. So who's the racist Lauren?
I’m confused as to how this became “news”. The article just looks like some college kid watched some movies on her own and became offended. Maybe she dashed off some complaints on Facebook or Twitter, but they s seems like even shakier sourcing than the typical clickbaity “cut and paste a Reddit thread” articles.
Oh crap, here comes the next Greta.
Excellent point especially when Lauren Robertson is too ignorant to know the difference between an ape and a monkey. I cannot take her seriously when she lacks basic knowledge like that.
Addressing The Jungle Book, from 1967, Lauren, who is originally from Dunblane said: 'Remember King Louie the orangutan?The student claimed that the Jungle Book character King Louie (pictured above) is racist.
'You probably didn't realise when you watched it age five with all your animal teddies lined up in front of the TV, but there is a hell of a lot of criticism about him being a racist caricature.
'He and the other monkeys are shown to be foolish and criminal, and they literally sing about wanting to be able to make the white man's fire.'
And it was based on Louis’s act
People who actually use that term should be flogged. Mercilessly.
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