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Student slams classic Disney films for being 'horrendously outdated and offensive' [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | November 18, 2019 | Terri Ann-Williams

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A student has slammed classic Disney films for being 'horrendously outdated and offensive', claiming that the Jungle Book character King Louie is racist and that many of the animations have 'not aged well'.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?

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: disney; millenials
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To: Hatteras

Why should that picture offend liberals?

It clearly shows Baloo the Bear in a grass skirt. He must be a Cross Dressing Transvestite.


61 posted on 11/18/2019 9:16:29 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: C19fan

Who is Lauren to tell others what they need to be offended by?


62 posted on 11/18/2019 9:22:13 AM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: C19fan
"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."

You are suggesting there is a stereotype here, no one else. Who is the racist?
63 posted on 11/18/2019 9:24:16 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: C19fan
Students slam old films for being old?

-PJ

64 posted on 11/18/2019 9:31:34 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: C19fan

Dear Aberdeen Student in the UK,

I permit you to rant and rave and scream and whine over today’s so-called ‘transgressions’, within the borders of the UK.
Ye shall not speak one bad syllable towards theseCLASSIC Disney films, here in America.


65 posted on 11/18/2019 9:39:23 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: C19fan

SO what snowflake.


66 posted on 11/18/2019 9:49:27 AM PST by Agatsu77
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To: C19fan

Make them watch Birth Of A Nation (1915), those who can read will fall over dead.


67 posted on 11/18/2019 9:57:40 AM PST by MrHead (Open to sugestions.)
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To: C19fan

THEN. DO. NOT. WATCH. THEM.


68 posted on 11/18/2019 10:03:22 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: C19fan

Ya gotta love the internet nowadays.

It’s the only way ONE STUDENT can run his/her mouth about something ridiculous...and get into a British tabloid...and then posted as an article at Free Republic.


69 posted on 11/18/2019 10:08:13 AM PST by moovova
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To: usurper

Apparently, the msm has run out of impeachment news.


70 posted on 11/18/2019 10:24:27 AM PST by bgill
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To: COBOL2Java

Wow … Never seen that one before!


71 posted on 11/18/2019 10:29:06 AM PST by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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To: C19fan

There’s an old movie from the 1980s called “Baby Boom” with Diane Keaton. She is a career woman who “inherits” a baby and is in the process of interviewing nannies, one of which is a Muslim. This is definitely not PC. It starts at about 59 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwr1IzFzjqA


72 posted on 11/18/2019 10:34:22 AM PST by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: COBOL2Java

Oh , I thought swine was very bad Wine


73 posted on 11/18/2019 10:36:16 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: wny

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/lauren-robertson-821415197

Yes, too much time on her hands. Little Miss Know Nothing from her Linked In. “My French studies I have focussed on translation skills, as well as oral, aural and written fluency.” Uh, hmm, major failure in not able to spell, proofread or run Spell Check and she can’t formulate a proper sentence.


74 posted on 11/18/2019 10:39:41 AM PST by bgill
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To: Kommodor; COBOL2Java
Al Capp at his very best!

That was one I missed. I do remember Joanie Phoanie from the same era, though. What a great satire!

His personal life notwithstanding, Capp should be required reading for anyone who aspires to make a living in art, humor or advertising.

75 posted on 11/18/2019 10:43:18 AM PST by logician2u
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To: a fool in paradise

She said he wanted to make whit man’s fire.

What does Slim Whitman have to do with this? (LOL)


76 posted on 11/18/2019 10:47:59 AM PST by smalltownslick
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To: grobdriver

“Are we supposed to care what Lauren Robertson thinks about anything?”

Maybe we should. She and her contemporaries will be running the country in the not-too-distant future. We should be very worried.


77 posted on 11/18/2019 10:49:10 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("I've read the back of The Book, and we win.")
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To: bgill
I believe the little snowflake is spelling the word "focused" as our British cousins prescribe. Just like they add an unnecessary "u" to color for some reason. (Is there any other way to pronounce that word, perhaps rhyming with "sour?")

No wonder correct English is so difficult for email fraudsters in Nigeria.

78 posted on 11/18/2019 10:53:44 AM PST by logician2u
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To: C19fan

Ooh, a student.
What students don’t know....


79 posted on 11/18/2019 11:02:36 AM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: C19fan

We loved the Disney films.
Don’t forget Mary Poppins.
My husbAnd refused to get rid of all the Disney VHS.


80 posted on 11/18/2019 11:15:43 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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