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A student has slammed classic Disney films for being 'horrendously outdated and offensive', claiming that the Jungle Book character King Louie is racist and that many of the animations have 'not aged well'.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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Student...singular
Snowflake complaint from one make it into UK natioal newspaper.
Amazing
She might want to read Rudyard Kipling. There does not appear to be a King Louie.
Then she might want to actually spend some time in the jungles of India watching the animals interact. I wonder if that’s what Kipling was actually getting at. It seems a rather convoluted ethnic joke if that’s what it was, told at a time when there would have been nothing wrong with telling an ethnic joke.
Student, not graduate. Why are we listening to the children?
King Louie voiced by Christopher Walken & Louis Prima.
Off with their heads— because some twit says so.
That was a great movie. I have actually have a digital copy I was able to get my hands on several years ago.
Formerly Great Britain needs to be nuked from orbit. It’s a lost cause.
I have a pirated copy that someone burned to a dvd a long time ago.
Mr. Bluebird’s on your shoulder...
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