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Why Are People Mad About 'Snow White'? The Controversy Explained
AOL ^ | 7/18/23 | Eliza Thompson

Posted on 07/19/2023 5:11:16 AM PDT by DallasBiff

After the success of 2023’s The Little Mermaid, Disney’s next live-action project is a remake of Snow White — but not everyone is excited about the new movie.

A live-action version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has been in development since at least 2016, but production didn’t kick off in earnest until 2021. In June of that year, Deadline reported that Rachel Zegler had landed the role of the titular princess, who made her Disney debut in 1937. (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was Disney’s first full-length animated film.)

After the success of 2023’s The Little Mermaid, Disney’s next live-action project is a remake of Snow White — but not everyone is excited about the new movie.

A live-action version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has been in development since at least 2016, but production didn’t kick off in earnest until 2021. In June of that year, Deadline reported that Rachel Zegler had landed the role of the titular princess, who made her Disney debut in 1937. (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was Disney’s first full-length animated film.)

“People are making these jokes about ours being the PC Snow White, where it’s like, yeah, it is — because it needed that,” Zegler, who is of Colombian and Polish descent, told Vanity Fair in October 2022. “It’s an 85-year-old cartoon, and our version is a refreshing story about a young woman who has a function beyond ‘Someday My Prince Will Come.’”

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KEYWORDS: 00001appropreation; disney; snowwgite; wokeness
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To: DallasBiff
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41 posted on 07/19/2023 6:13:50 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: DallasBiff

It starts with a lie. The live action The Little Mermaid was not a success.

When Snow White no longer has a complexion as white as snow, and the seven dwarves are no longer dwarves…when she no longer wishes for a prince, but wants to lead a rebellion against her stepmother…it is not even remotely the same story and they should stop pretending that it is.

This is an attempt to erase the past. They want the next generation to not even know about the classic story. THIS will be the REAL story of Snow White from now on because they said so.


42 posted on 07/19/2023 6:14:01 AM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: Gen.Blather

So, they’ll take all the pancakes and butter out of Little Black Sambo?


43 posted on 07/19/2023 6:17:58 AM PDT by smartymarty (How a mountain girl can love.)
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To: DallasBiff

If diversity is such a strength, why don’t these other cultures have a deep tradition of stories to draw on? Why must they adapt ones that offend them?


44 posted on 07/19/2023 6:18:40 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: smartymarty

“So, they’ll take all the pancakes and butter out of Little Black Sambo?”

A couple of decades ago there was a restaurant called Sambo’s and it used a cartoon from the story as a brand. It was literally run out of business. The family of the woman who posed for the Aunt Jimima syrup photo was still receiving royalty payments. The left put a stop to that at and Uncle Ben’s because...racism or something.

I seem to remember eating at a Sambo’s when I was a kid. My recollection is it was similar to Shoney’s.

Aunt Jemima story.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/22/aunt-jemimas-family-pleads-keep-mammy-image/


45 posted on 07/19/2023 6:25:35 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: DallasBiff
Next Disney remake


46 posted on 07/19/2023 6:26:07 AM PDT by silverleaf (It's not propaganda just because you disagree with it. )
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To: DallasBiff

Snow White belongs to Disney, they can make her Snow Purple if they wish.


47 posted on 07/19/2023 6:27:16 AM PDT by Round Earther
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To: dfwgator

All you need is 10-15% of the overall population to somewhat consistently buy your product(s) ..and your company will likely survive.
Probably some companies survive on much lower percentages. Personally I’d be more than satisfied to make 10 cent profit x 30 million..a year.


48 posted on 07/19/2023 6:27:58 AM PDT by Leep (What skill or service did the biden family have that netted them tens of millions of dollars?)
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To: DallasBiff

and you probably have the reading comprehension of a potato. re read what I wrote and concentrate on the last sentence!


49 posted on 07/19/2023 6:33:06 AM PDT by Ikeon (I'm a mirror , what you see in me is actually a refection of yourself. )
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To: Round Earther

Snow Rainbow would be closer to the effort.


50 posted on 07/19/2023 6:36:32 AM PDT by Bernard ("No matter where you go, there you are." (Buckaroo Banzai))
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To: DallasBiff

Snow White is part of the culture. The White refers to White skin. The left hates American culture and White skin. Therefore the American left is passionate about transforming Snow White into Snow Brown.

Can’t have kids reading about a beautiful White girl in a country where White is hated and being replaced.


51 posted on 07/19/2023 6:37:36 AM PDT by I want the USA back (A man is not a woman. A woman is not a man. There is no in-between or undefined middle. Cat = cat.)
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To: telescope115
“Roots” came out, what, 50 or so years ago? IT’S TIME FOR A REMAKE!

This time, set it with Scots-Irish indentured servants in early colonial Carolinas...
52 posted on 07/19/2023 6:41:49 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: cuz1961

Brilliant cartoon.


53 posted on 07/19/2023 6:42:50 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her lbegs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: I want the USA back

“Snow”? brown?


54 posted on 07/19/2023 6:43:53 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her lbegs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: brookwood
Or “Roots” with an all-white cast. Steve Martin as Kunta Kinte?

Well, he was born a poor black child ...


55 posted on 07/19/2023 6:48:38 AM PDT by BlueLancer (One for all ... All for one ... Every man for himself) (Moe, Larry, and Curley)
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To: DallasBiff

The better question is why would anyone care about it?


56 posted on 07/19/2023 6:53:35 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: FoxInSocks

Chica White, a midget and six prancing gaywads.


57 posted on 07/19/2023 6:57:39 AM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: DallasBiff

why are people upset over this woke bs?

because it’s an effort to erase or supplant the pop culture of the nation.

this goes hand in hand with the destruction of our history.

all part of the ‘death of 1000 cuts’ strategy


58 posted on 07/19/2023 7:17:23 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Sirius Lee

“Noble Refugee Princess and the Seven Coyotes”


59 posted on 07/19/2023 7:18:26 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: sten

“because it’s an effort to erase or supplant the pop culture of the nation”

Bingo, it’s just as essential a part of the “Great Replacement” as importing millions of 3rd worlders. It won’t matter if the country gets more brown, if those brown people adopt our culture and then refuse to take part in the great experiment.


60 posted on 07/19/2023 7:19:43 AM PDT by Boogieman
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