Are these same people as outraged about “The Vagina Monologues”? I’ve heard that play has some strong language and themes in it.
So where does one draw the line on various issues like this? Disney has censored its own movie “Song of the South” for racial reasons. The slaves depicted in the movie were stereotypical and not politically correct.
It’s strange to go to Disneyland and see some depictions of Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear, who were in “Song of the South”. I wonder if little kids today even know who those characters are, because they have never been allowed to see the movie.
Limousine Liberals at play.”You can’t make this stuff up.”
There are no slaves in Song of the South. It takes place AFTER the civil war.
Also, the movie was released on home video in the 1980s and 1990s in Hong Kong, Japan, and Ireland. Possibly to other foreign markets as well. It wasn't until DVD made home video playback of foreign releases easy and cheap (the asian laserdiscs were upwards of $100 and Europe uses PAL video).
Another interesting fact, the man who voiced Brear Bear (sp?) also acted in the tv version of Amos & Andy (the radio show used “blackface” actors, white people reading the lines in dialect, but the tv show used black actors.
Anyway, that actor sold videotapes of the old Amos & Andy tv shows and used other income to fund a black theater group in California up to the time of his death (I think in the 2000s).
He didn't see shame in his work and he saw a way to give back to the community.
Political correctness demands revisionist history. All of it is Orwellian. All of it is Stalinist.