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Disney Introduces A Revamped Jungle Cruise Ride Without The Racist Imagery
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Posted on 07/22/2021 12:25:47 PM PDT by MNDude
A ride at Disneyland that used to feature racist, colonialist depictions of Africans now emphasizes slapstick monkeys and chimpanzees besting clueless tourists instead.
Jungle Cruise, which originally opened in 1955, until recently featured spear-waving, headhunting Africans as part of the attraction. A revamped version of the ride opened Friday at Disney's theme park in Anaheim, Calif. Disney previously announced the ride will also be redone at Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla.
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posted on
07/22/2021 12:25:47 PM PDT
by
MNDude
To: MNDude
It would be more realistic and truthful if the ‘natives’ had AK-47’s and RPG’s...........................
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posted on
07/22/2021 12:27:19 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: MNDude
This could be a serious spawning ground for the new Nigerian Monkey Virus!
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posted on
07/22/2021 12:27:21 PM PDT
by
JennysCool
('It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.' - Mark Twain)
To: MNDude
What? AK-47 waving headhunters instead?
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posted on
07/22/2021 12:27:50 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: MNDude
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posted on
07/22/2021 12:28:16 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
To: Red Badger
They replaced black people with monkeys?
How is this not racist?
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posted on
07/22/2021 12:30:19 PM PDT
by
Celerity
To: Red Badger
I’ve been reading the Journal of John Hanning Speke who discovered the source of the Nile in the 1850’s.
Lots of accounts of cannibalism.
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posted on
07/22/2021 12:31:10 PM PDT
by
MNDude
To: MNDude
Young rider: Mama, what's that creature there?
Minnie Mouse: Honey, I'll explain it for you and your mother. That's an evil white man. They're the cause of all of our problems and the reason your father doesn't want to be in your life and why your parents had you when they were 16.
Young rider: Such a bad, bad man! Thanks, Minnie!
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posted on
07/22/2021 12:31:32 PM PDT
by
Tell It Right
(1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: Celerity
They replaced black people with monkeys? LOL! That was my first thought
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posted on
07/22/2021 12:32:28 PM PDT
by
FatherofFive
(We support Trump. Not the GOP)
To: MNDude
Disney destroys and white-washes actual African culture and history to appease white guilt and blacks who’ve never been to Africa.
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posted on
07/22/2021 12:32:34 PM PDT
by
Skywise
To: MNDude
...until the monkeys claim offense at being compared to African-Americans...
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posted on
07/22/2021 12:33:13 PM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(Chinese communism will look different once the masks come off.)
To: MNDude
"Disneyland's updated Jungle Cruise ride features tourists of various ethnic backgrounds getting chased by wildlife."Replacing charm and beauty with politics.
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posted on
07/22/2021 12:33:29 PM PDT
by
UnwashedPeasant
(Trump is the last legally elected U.S. President.)
To: MNDude
Michael Rockefeller was unavailable for comment.
To: MNDude
The Jungle Cruise movie had a lot of potential, but it is garbage and it diminishes the Disney franchise.
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posted on
07/22/2021 12:36:39 PM PDT
by
UnwashedPeasant
(Trump is the last legally elected U.S. President.)
To: MNDude
I heard the natives will be dressed in lab coats and business suits.
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posted on
07/22/2021 12:38:33 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: MNDude
You might enjoy a copy of "The Negroes in Negroland; The Negroes in America; And Negroes Generally"
Published in 1868, it is a compilation of journals and diaries of missionaries, merchants, slave traders and explorers during the 19th century who witnessed how these people lived in their native habitat. It ain't pretty.
Available from Amazon.
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posted on
07/22/2021 12:40:10 PM PDT
by
dainbramaged
(You'll get nothing and like it!)
To: Celerity
How is this not racist? That was my first thought when reading this. But who am I to identify racism when I read it. I haven't had the training.
To: dragnet2
I heard the natives will be dressed in lab coats and business suits.Oh, yeah. That guy over there with no tie and the rumpled hair is working on his next paper on non-associative algebras.
To: dragnet2
And are white boiling a black man in a pot.
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posted on
07/22/2021 12:44:31 PM PDT
by
bray
(Hating Whites is racist)
To: MNDude
slapstick monkeys and chimpanzees besting clueless tourists instead.
very similar to almost every commercial on TV these days
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