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Student slams classic Disney films for being 'horrendously outdated and offensive' [tr]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A student has slammed classic Disney films for being 'horrendously outdated and offensive', claiming that the Jungle Book character King Louie is racist and that many of the animations have 'not aged well'.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: C19fan

Student...singular

Snowflake complaint from one make it into UK natioal newspaper.

Amazing


81 posted on 11/18/2019 12:11:04 PM PST by hattend
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To: Dahoser

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.


82 posted on 11/18/2019 4:33:28 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: C19fan

Student, not graduate. Why are we listening to the children?


83 posted on 11/18/2019 4:34:04 PM PST by CodeToad
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To: C19fan

King Louie voiced by Christopher Walken & Louis Prima.
Off with their heads— because some twit says so.


84 posted on 11/18/2019 5:40:00 PM PST by mumblypeg
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To: Phillyred
You thought it would end with Song of the South.

That was a great movie. I have actually have a digital copy I was able to get my hands on several years ago.

85 posted on 11/18/2019 6:04:34 PM PST by voicereason (The RNC is like the "one-night stand" you wish you could forget.)
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To: C19fan

Formerly Great Britain needs to be nuked from orbit. It’s a lost cause.


86 posted on 11/18/2019 7:16:41 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: C19fan
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87 posted on 11/18/2019 8:28:16 PM PST by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: Vigilanteman

I have a pirated copy that someone burned to a dvd a long time ago.

Mr. Bluebird’s on your shoulder...


88 posted on 01/02/2020 12:05:42 PM PST by rhoda_penmark
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To: Vigilanteman

https://youtu.be/6bWyhj7siEY


89 posted on 01/02/2020 12:09:45 PM PST by rhoda_penmark
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